From: Jan Dubois Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:48:43 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Document different kill(-9, ...) semantics on Windows X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0302514feb55ae749ad81a0d884e20a20b94c71;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Document different kill(-9, ...) semantics on Windows From: "Jan Dubois" Message-ID: <003201c82e23$0003a0f0$000ae2d0$@com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32475 --- diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index e7a8ca5..1b95025 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -1872,6 +1872,12 @@ and makes it 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) +C will terminate the process specified by $pid and +recursively all child processes owned by it. This is different from +the Unix semantics, where the signal will be delivered to all +processes in the same process group as the process specified by +$pid. (Win32) + Is not supported for process identification number of 0 or negative numbers. (VMS)