New submission from Giampaolo Rodola' <billiej...@users.sourceforge.net>:

On Linux Ubuntu equipped with Python 2.6.1 I get this:

>>> os.kill(99999, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 3] No such process
>>> print os.kill(-1, 0)
None
>>>


IMHO the latter case should raise "No such process" for consistency or,
at least ValueError, but surely not returning None.

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messages: 82549
nosy: giampaolo.rodola
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.kill() inconsistency
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1

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