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doc: add warning about Windows process groups
This commit adds a warning for Windows platforms. `process.kill` wont kill a process group on Windows and instead it throws an error. Refs: #3617 PR-URL: #3681 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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@@ -547,7 +547,8 @@ string describing the signal to send. Signal names are strings like
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See [Signal Events][] and kill(2) for more information.
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Will throw an error if target does not exist, and as a special case, a signal
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of `0` can be used to test for the existence of a process.
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of `0` can be used to test for the existence of a process. Windows platforms
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will throw an error if the `pid` is used to kill a process group.
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Note that even though the name of this function is `process.kill`, it is really
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just a signal sender, like the `kill` system call. The signal sent may do

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