Bug #10492: Please improve documentation for Process.kill

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.1.4
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN

[shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)]

Hi,

The current docu can be seen at:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.4/Process.html#method-c-kill

I would like to see all values that can be passed to

Process.kill

documented there.

Can someone add this please?

I would try to write a patch myself but I do not know which
PIDs are valid and which ones are not, and where else
to find this information. (I tried to look up because
I needed to kill PIDs from a trojan respawning stuff
all over everywhere, and I got tired scanning for
them with shell scripts so I started to write a ruby
script - stuff like /usr/bin/.sshd being a binary
program that tries to keep on respawning itself.
Process.kill :QUIT did not seem to do anything
there)

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset r48358.

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signal.c: signal list to kill

• signal.c (rb_f_kill): [DOC] mention known signal list.
  [ruby-core:66162] [Bug #10492]