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doc: add warning about Windows process groups

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This commit adds a warning for Windows platforms. `process.kill` wont
kill a process group on Windows and instead it throws an error.

Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3617
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3681
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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Roman Klauke 2015-11-05 20:08:34 +01:00 committed by James M Snell
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@ -548,7 +548,8 @@ string describing the signal to send. Signal names are strings like
See [Signal Events](#process_signal_events) and kill(2) for more information.
Will throw an error if target does not exist, and as a special case, a signal
of `0` can be used to test for the existence of a process.
of `0` can be used to test for the existence of a process. Windows platforms
will throw an error if the `pid` is used to kill a process group.
Note that even though the name of this function is `process.kill`, it is really
just a signal sender, like the `kill` system call. The signal sent may do