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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-01 03:04:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-01 03:04:54 +0000 |
| commit | 42b8b86c2abf1140ff5c8d74d48d4ece7deb56d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ce11a1fcd5e2aecf881cc009d2fb14e55069de8 /pod/perlport.pod | |
| parent | 8e858c0b3848dae7efc722f353d7f17ce1333a30 (diff) | |
| download | perl-42b8b86c2abf1140ff5c8d74d48d4ece7deb56d7.tar.gz | |
support kill(0,$pid) on Windows to test if process exists
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5386
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlport.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlport.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index 3009780ada..b062b3b106 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -1459,8 +1459,9 @@ Available only for socket handles. (S<RISC OS>) Not implemented, hence not useful for taint checking. (S<Mac OS>, S<RISC OS>) -Unlike Unix platforms, C<kill(0, $pid)> will actually terminate -the process. (Win32) +C<kill($sig, $pid)> makes the process exit immediately with exit +status $sig. As in Unix, if $sig is 0 and the specified process exists, +it returns true without actually terminating it. (Win32) =item link OLDFILE,NEWFILE |