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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-10-13 06:34:53 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-10-13 06:34:53 +0000
commitb350dd2f881c6f46f8125355cf7111e4c97d1870 (patch)
tree6bb50e35908a60ca2018f55cba5e3efd2fdf1b11 /README.win32
parentc35dd67d21bc3e32533d94409f1aabc5d0c23f0a (diff)
downloadperl-b350dd2f881c6f46f8125355cf7111e4c97d1870.tar.gz
various pod tweaks (from M.J.T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4359
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@@ -700,8 +700,9 @@ C<kill()> is implemented, but doesn't have the semantics of
C<raise()>, i.e. it doesn't send a signal to the identified process
like it does on Unix platforms. Instead it immediately calls
C<TerminateProcess(process,signal)>. Thus the signal argument is
-used to set the exit-status of the terminated process. This behavior
-may change in future.
+used to set the exit-status of the terminated process. In particular,
+C<kill(0,$pid)> will kill the process identified by C<$pid> (unlike
+on Unix). This behavior may change in future.
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