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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Steve Hay wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> Speaking of kill... have you guys tried running kill(0, undef) with
>> certain versions of Perl? The earlier versions (5.8.2) apparently
>> killed the parent process instead of erroring out or something.
>>
>> You just reminded me of that point.
>
> I can't reproduce anything like what you describe with 5.6.0,
> 5.6.1, any 5.8.x or bleadperl. I tried running
>
> perl -le "print kill(0, undef); print 'Hi'"
>
> with each of those perls, and they all print 'Hi' okay. Is this one-
> liner sufficient to show up the problem concerned?
I assume Garrett was referring to this bug report:
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=42101
I don't think this behavior is relevant to kill(0, $pid), but only
to those that actually send a signal. The bug was rejected, as the
current behavior is standard POSIX functionality.
Cheers,
-Jan
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