STINNER Victor added the comment:
0 has no special meaning on Windows so I'd rather not add another special
case for posix emulation. Additionally, 0 unfortunately already means two
things as it is: signal.CTRL_C_EVENT and the int 0.
I agree, it's not a good idea to support os.kill(pid, 0)
Changes by Giampaolo Rodola' g.rod...@gmail.com:
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New submission from Andrew Svetlov andrew.svet...@gmail.com:
Starting from 3.2 Python supports os.kill for Windows.
It process signal.CTRL_C_EVENT and signal.CTRL_BREAK_EVENT, and kills pid for
all other signals.
Posix allows to pass zero signal to check pid for existing.
It will be nice to
Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com:
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stage: - needs patch
type: behavior - enhancement
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Brian Curtin br...@python.org added the comment:
-1
0 has no special meaning on Windows so I'd rather not add another special case
for posix emulation. Additionally, 0 unfortunately already means two things as
it is: signal.CTRL_C_EVENT and the int 0.
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R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
Hmm. I would think it would be a good idea to have os.kill do posix emulation
where that makes sense, it makes cross-platform usage easier. That's what
'kill' with no signal does, right (kills the process, just like the posix
Brian Curtin br...@python.org added the comment:
I meant that in the underlying, such as in the TerminateProcess API, 0 doesn't
mean anything special. As is being debated over on #14484 we currently take all
integers to be passed to TerminateProcess (the int becomes the killed proc's
return
Andrew Svetlov andrew.svet...@gmail.com added the comment:
There are no `kill` function in Windows API.
From my perspective win32_kill was added to emulate posix sibling if possible.
If not — better to give another Windows native name to that function.
Really don't see good solution. Maybe
