From 8e134172dd439fcfd6028f51e92ea9ecd97dab7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stepan Koltsov <stepan.koltsov@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:18:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] process: calling `start_kill` on exited child should not fail
 (#7160)

---
 tokio/src/process/mod.rs | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tokio/src/process/mod.rs b/tokio/src/process/mod.rs
index 2e5d6247f..28cbf66a8 100644
--- a/tokio/src/process/mod.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/process/mod.rs
@@ -1158,10 +1158,7 @@ impl Child {
     pub fn start_kill(&mut self) -> io::Result<()> {
         match &mut self.child {
             FusedChild::Child(child) => child.kill(),
-            FusedChild::Done(_) => Err(io::Error::new(
-                io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
-                "invalid argument: can't kill an exited process",
-            )),
+            FusedChild::Done(_) => Ok(()),
         }
     }