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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-10-13 06:34:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-10-13 06:34:53 +0000 |
| commit | 270d6d6760ea16ef19657eff36929596470a0a3d (patch) | |
| tree | 6bb50e35908a60ca2018f55cba5e3efd2fdf1b11 /README.win32 | |
| parent | 7964b89e9576c7b0c707831c48490c6b5c44eeb1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-270d6d6760ea16ef19657eff36929596470a0a3d.tar.gz | |
various pod tweaks (from M.J.T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4359
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 880a8b408e..dfd6eb09f2 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -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. =item * |