X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/8ccce9aeff05ce7be92baddaafcf71c608c453d4..6cb9d3e40c5e4e4dd98e183e91f28fca942fb037:/pod/perlfunc.pod diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 67d8b05..6a9f5dc 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2594,7 +2594,7 @@ same as the number actually killed). kill 9, @goners; If SIGNAL is zero, no signal is sent to the process, but the kill(2) -system call will check whether it's possible so send a signal to it (that +system call will check whether it's possible to send a signal to it (that means, to be brief, that the process is owned by the same user, or we are the super-user). This is a useful way to check that a child process is alive and hasn't changed its UID. See L for notes on the