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Document different kill(-9, ...) semantics on Windows
author
Jan Dubois
<jand@activestate.com>
Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:48:43 +0000
(06:48 -0800)
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Rafael Garcia-Suarez
<rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:06:24 +0000
(09:06 +0000)
From: "Jan Dubois" <jand@activestate.com>
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and makes it exit immediately with exit status $sig. As in Unix, if
$sig is 0 and the specified process exists, it returns true without
actually terminating it. (Win32)
+C<kill(-9, $pid)> will terminate the process specified by $pid and
+recursively all child processes owned by it. This is different from
+the Unix semantics, where the signal will be delivered to all
+processes in the same process group as the process specified by
+$pid. (Win32)
+
Is not supported for process identification number of 0 or negative
numbers. (VMS)