kill(0, $pid) should not die [rt.cpan.org #86238]

[toddr]

Migrated from rt.cpan.org#86238 (status was 'open')

Requestors:

• [email protected]

From [email protected] on 2013-06-18 14:54:44
:

kill(0, $pid) is often used to check if a process exists and can be signaled.  The current version of autodie (2.19) dies if $pid doesn't exist or can't be signaled by the current user.  When the signal number is 0, autodie should not die.

From [email protected] on 2014-10-07 15:12:11
:

On Tue Jun 18 10:54:44 2013, JSIRACUSA wrote:
> kill(0, $pid) is often used to check if a process exists and can be
> signaled.  The current version of autodie (2.19) dies if $pid doesn't
> exist or can't be signaled by the current user.  When the signal
> number is 0, autodie should not die.

For reference: This is (now?) also filed on github as issue #47[1]

~Niels

[1] https://github.com/pjf/autodie/issues/47

From [email protected] on 2019-06-05 16:17:51
:

On Tue Oct 07 11:12:11 2014, [email protected] wrote:

> For reference: This is (now?) also filed on github as issue #47[1]


Still happening nearly 5 years after this announcement.  Will the fix be rolled out any time soon?

From [email protected] on 2019-06-05 16:22:49
:

njh@microcenter:/tmp$ cat autodie 
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie qw(:all);

if(kill(0, 10000)) {
	print "there\n";
}

print "done\n";
njh@microcenter:/tmp$ ./autodie 
Can't kill('0', '10000'): No such process at ./autodie line 7
njh@microcenter:/tmp$ 

[toddr]

This is a duplicate to #47 I believe.