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| author | Yury Smolsky <yury@smolsky.by> | 2018-03-05 22:00:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org> | 2018-03-05 23:47:41 +0000 |
| commit | adcf2d59ec25e6a1f5fda7eb5c125302363657ea (patch) | |
| tree | 782b8b3a7986af6a5f9d54123a3176f89b101f49 /src/os/exec.go | |
| parent | 32e459a09cd2da967fc2c0accf197fecc7b658d5 (diff) | |
| download | go-adcf2d59ec25e6a1f5fda7eb5c125302363657ea.tar.xz | |
os/exec: document Process.Kill behaviour
It is not clear from documentation what the Process.Kill does. And it
leads to reccuring confusion about Cmd.Start/Wait methods.
Fixes #24220
Change-Id: I66609d21d2954e195d13648014681530eed8ea6c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/98715
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/os/exec.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/os/exec.go | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/os/exec.go b/src/os/exec.go index a7f8710b95..cab6a73d94 100644 --- a/src/os/exec.go +++ b/src/os/exec.go @@ -109,7 +109,9 @@ func (p *Process) Release() error { return p.release() } -// Kill causes the Process to exit immediately. +// Kill causes the Process to exit immediately. Kill does not wait until +// the Process has actually exited. This only kills the Process itself, +// not any other processes it may have started. func (p *Process) Kill() error { return p.kill() } |