Bug #5962: Error in Process.{wait,wait2} rdoc

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: Revision: 34422

[jheiss (Jason Heiss)]

The rdoc for Process.{wait,wait2} claim they will raise "SystemError". That exception doesn't exist. In reality they seem to raise Errno::ECHILD:

Process.wait
Errno::ECHILD: No child processes

Although perhaps the intention was to document that they raise SystemCallError (ECHILD's superclass)? I'm including patches for both, feel free to pick either one.

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Category set to doc
• Assignee set to drbrain (Eric Hodel)

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r34587.
Jason, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• process.c (proc_wait): Change typo "SystemError" to
  "SystemCallError". [ruby-trunk - Bug #5962]
• process.c (proc_wait2): ditto