On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 01:15 AM, Komtanoo Pinpimai wrote:
Sorry. This question is not directly related to Perl. However, I'm
so curious for a long time that why unix doesn't allow us to pass
parameters to "kill system call". For example, I want to do this:
On most Unix
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> Because that's not how kill works in UN*X. Kill sends a numbered signal
> (try kill(1) or kill -1). The process then reacts (or not) accordingly.
> End of story. It's not a general purpose interprocess communication
> mechanism. Maybe you want to read
Because that's not how kill works in UN*X. Kill sends a numbered signal
(try kill(1) or kill -1). The process then reacts (or not) accordingly.
End of story. It's not a general purpose interprocess communication
mechanism. Maybe you want to read perlipc(1).
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Hello,
Sorry. This question is not directly related to Perl. However, I'm
so curious for a long time that why unix doesn't allow us to pass
parameters to "kill system call". For example, I want to do this:
kill -HUP -input "Hello World" 1234
That will send signal HUP and string "Hello
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