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| author | David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> | 2006-09-01 12:26:34 -0500 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-09-07 13:16:12 +0000 |
| commit | 81fd35db2f3e55eb0649bd9c451c2ba5dc0673b6 (patch) | |
| tree | d9893d68c48ebdc8ea0a1e5674ddc6a92faddcad | |
| parent | 5a4e8ea75d635fdfae035d8d1954c3aca4bef057 (diff) | |
| download | perl-81fd35db2f3e55eb0649bd9c451c2ba5dc0673b6.tar.gz | |
Re: [perl #40262] kill( 0, ... ) does not return alive status of child process
From: "David Nicol" <davidnicol@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <934f64a20609011526odd7f5bta847a3be1f6fa5f0@mail.gmail.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28801
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 1004837802..e98e3f463d 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2582,8 +2582,8 @@ If SIGNAL is zero, no signal is sent to the process, but the kill(2) 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<perlport> for notes on the -portability of this construct. +alive (even if only as a zombie) and hasn't changed its UID. See +L<perlport> for notes on the portability of this construct. Unlike in the shell, if SIGNAL is negative, it kills process groups instead of processes. (On System V, a negative I<PROCESS> |