On Thursday, 4 April 2013 at 16:57:58 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 4/4/13, Jesse Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
Docs:
http://www.kyllingen.net/code/std-process2/phobos-prerelease/std_process.html
<quote>
Win32-specific warning: The mechanisms for process termination
are
incredibly badly specified in Win32. This function may therefore
produce unexpected results, and should be used with the utmost
care.
</quote>
It then links to a note about XP. So does this only apply to XP
or all
Windows systems? "win32" isn't very specific, does it not apply
for
64bit systems?
Did you read the article? In the second paragraph it says:
"Many of the details of how processes exit are left unspecified
in Win32, so different Win32 implementations can follow different
mechanisms. For example, Win32s, Windows 95, and Windows NT all
shut down processes differently."
BTW, this is written by one of Microsoft's Windows developers, so
I'm assuming it to be authoritative.
I don't know whether it applies to Win64, though. I've tried to
investigate, but I couldn't find anything. I agree the docs
should probably be changed to "Windows APIs" rather than "Win32".
Lars
