Jan Dubois wrote: > I broke the kill(0, $pid) behavior on Windows with change 29605 > (the one implementing killpg()): > > http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/29605 > > The problem is that OpenProcess() returns a HANDLE, but on error it > returns NULL and not the usual INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE. I assume the reason > for this is that at the kernel level, the INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE bit > pattern is the same as the pseudo handle for the current process. > > The attached patch restores kill(0, $pid) behavior. Good catch! I guess there really ought to be a test for this behaviour. I'll have a look later if nobody else beats me to it. Anyway, applied as #30970. Thanks. --Thread Previous | Thread Next