From 42b8b86c2abf1140ff5c8d74d48d4ece7deb56d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 03:04:54 +0000
Subject: support kill(0,$pid) on Windows to test if process exists

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5386
---
 pod/perlport.pod | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'pod/perlport.pod')

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
 
-- 
cgit v1.2.1