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-rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | signal.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +Fri Sep 14 00:20:00 2012 Zachary Scott <zzak@ruby-lang.org> + + * signal.c (rb_f_kill): + Update documentation for Process.kill to reflect kill(2) + Patch by Richo Healey + Thu Sep 13 21:40:49 2012 Hiroshi Shirosaki <h.shirosaki@gmail.com> * lib/securerandom.rb (SecureRandom.random_bytes): @@ -304,11 +304,11 @@ ruby_default_signal(int sig) * call-seq: * Process.kill(signal, pid, ...) -> fixnum * - * Sends the given signal to the specified process id(s), or to the - * current process if _pid_ is zero. _signal_ may be an - * integer signal number or a POSIX signal name (either with or without - * a +SIG+ prefix). If _signal_ is negative (or starts - * with a minus sign), kills process groups instead of + * Sends the given signal to the specified process id(s) if _pid_ is positive. + * If _pid_ is zero _signal_ is sent to all processes whose group ID is equal + * to the group ID of the process. _signal_ may be an integer signal number or + * a POSIX signal name (either with or without a +SIG+ prefix). If _signal_ is + * negative (or starts with a minus sign), kills process groups instead of * processes. Not all signals are available on all platforms. * * pid = fork do |