doc: clarify windows specific behaviour by sam-github · Pull Request #32079 · nodejs/node

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It was not possible to understand which, if either, of the sentences
after the first ("Windows does not... emulation") apply specifically to
Windows.  Specifically, `kill(pid, 0)` works on Linux and Windows and I
couldn't find it documented anywhere else, but the unconditional
termination occurs only on Windows.

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addaleax pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Mar 11, 2020
It was not possible to understand which, if either, of the sentences
after the first ("Windows does not... emulation") apply specifically to
Windows.  Specifically, `kill(pid, 0)` works on Linux and Windows and I
couldn't find it documented anywhere else, but the unconditional
termination occurs only on Windows.

PR-URL: #32079
Reviewed-By: Bartosz Sosnowski <bartosz@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>

MylesBorins pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Mar 11, 2020
It was not possible to understand which, if either, of the sentences
after the first ("Windows does not... emulation") apply specifically to
Windows.  Specifically, `kill(pid, 0)` works on Linux and Windows and I
couldn't find it documented anywhere else, but the unconditional
termination occurs only on Windows.

PR-URL: #32079
Reviewed-By: Bartosz Sosnowski <bartosz@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>

MylesBorins pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Mar 11, 2020
It was not possible to understand which, if either, of the sentences
after the first ("Windows does not... emulation") apply specifically to
Windows.  Specifically, `kill(pid, 0)` works on Linux and Windows and I
couldn't find it documented anywhere else, but the unconditional
termination occurs only on Windows.

PR-URL: #32079
Reviewed-By: Bartosz Sosnowski <bartosz@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>

targos pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Apr 22, 2020
It was not possible to understand which, if either, of the sentences
after the first ("Windows does not... emulation") apply specifically to
Windows.  Specifically, `kill(pid, 0)` works on Linux and Windows and I
couldn't find it documented anywhere else, but the unconditional
termination occurs only on Windows.

PR-URL: #32079
Reviewed-By: Bartosz Sosnowski <bartosz@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>