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| author | Brian Curtin <brian.curtin@gmail.com> | 2010-04-12 17:16:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brian Curtin <brian.curtin@gmail.com> | 2010-04-12 17:16:38 (GMT) |
| commit | eb24d7498f3e34586fee24209f5630a58bb1a04b (patch) | |
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Port #1220212 (os.kill for Win32) to py3k.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index dacf87a..e328399 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -1491,7 +1491,14 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. Send signal *sig* to the process *pid*. Constants for the specific signals available on the host platform are defined in the :mod:`signal` module. - Availability: Unix. + + Windows: The :data:`signal.CTRL_C_EVENT` and + :data:`signal.CTRL_BREAK_EVENT` signals are special signals which can + only be sent to console processes which share a common console window, + e.g., some subprocesses. Any other value for *sig* will cause the process + to be unconditionally killed by the TerminateProcess API, and the exit code + will be set to *sig*. The Windows version of :func:`kill` additionally takes + process handles to be killed. .. function:: killpg(pgid, sig) |