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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 05:10:33PM -0800, bulk88 via RT wrote:
> While writing a test for this, I discovered another bug or issue in
> Win32 PG kill. PG kill is supposed to return the number of processes
> "signaled" (is this a synonym for "killed" on Win32 platform?) per
> perldoc
> ------------------------------------------------
> Sends a signal to a list of processes. Returns the number of processes
> successfully signaled (which is not necessarily the same as the number
> actually killed).
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> My testing shows the retval in PP of PG kill in 5.12.2 is always 1.
I think the perl docs are misleading. It's not supposed to indicate
the total *processes* killed - UNIX certainly doesn't provide this info
when killing groups - but rather the number of 'kills' in the list
that were successful. i.e.
kill $SIG, $proc1, $proc2, $no_such_process;
returns 2.
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