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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 /pod/perlport.pod
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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diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index 6b532f3777..3fd4352932 100644
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -1452,13 +1452,13 @@ in the Winsock API does. (Win32)
Available only for socket handles. (S<RISC OS>)
-=item kill LIST
+=item kill SIGNAL, LIST
Not implemented, hence not useful for taint checking. (S<Mac OS>,
S<RISC OS>)
-Available only for process handles returned by the C<system(1, ...)>
-method of spawning a process. (Win32)
+Unlike Unix platforms, C<kill(0, $pid)> will actually terminate
+the process. (Win32)
=item link OLDFILE,NEWFILE