Re: [perl #42101] Mass suicide occurs when running kill with an undefined value

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:07:15AM -0700, gwcooper @ pcocd2. intel. com wrote:

>                 kill(15, undef);

An undefined value will be interpreted as zero, and sending a signal to
process 0 sends the signal to the whole process group of the current
process (on Linux it does, anyway).

So this is expected behaviour.

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• [perl #42101] Mass suicide occurs when running kill with an undefined value by gwcooper @ pcocd2 . intel . com
• Re: [perl #42101] Mass suicide occurs when running kill with an undefined value by Dave Mitchell