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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-12-14 10:09:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-12-14 10:56:57 -0700 |
| commit | 9c7e4b76f43ec2baeb04ead01fa2a7ca919c629a (patch) | |
| tree | 024de62d732e4e52c4173b3a3c64a5b2ce42984d /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 7687d286485cd6742ddc9bd1c0f4a225d2f45725 (diff) | |
| download | perl-9c7e4b76f43ec2baeb04ead01fa2a7ca919c629a.tar.gz | |
perlfunc: Document kill without list of processes
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 809cc675f3..18f8d37d19 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2867,6 +2867,8 @@ experimental. The exact behaviour may change in a future version of Perl. See also C<each>, C<values>, and C<sort>. =item kill SIGNAL, LIST + +=item kill SIGNAL X<kill> X<signal> Sends a signal to a list of processes. Returns the number of @@ -2900,6 +2902,11 @@ for code running on Windows and in code intended to be portable. See L<perlfork> for more details. +If there is no I<LIST> of processes, no signal is sent, and the return +value is 0. This form is sometimes used, however, because it causes +tainting checks to be run. But see +L<perlsec/Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data>. + Portability issues: L<perlport/kill>. =item last LABEL |