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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:16:25PM -0800, bulk88 via RT wrote: > > 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. > > > > Patch for POD. > 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). > +same as the number actually killed) from the list of processes supplied. Thanks. However, I ended up rewording it again as follows, with 12733a03, since I think the process / process group distinction still wasn't clear enough. -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). +Sends a signal to a list of processes. Returns the number of arguments +that were successfully used to signal (which is not necessarily the same +as the number of processes actually killed, e.g. where a process group is +killed). -- In England there is a special word which means the last sunshine of the summer. That word is "spring".Thread Previous | Thread Next