commit 53260943eac49dde51e0ce28e50e9b4bc90661b8
author Forest Johnson <forest.n.johnson@gmail.com> Fri Oct 08 19:03:35 2021 +0000
committer Alexander Rakoczy <alex@golang.org> Wed Oct 13 15:56:29 2021 +0000
tree 7b3b7062f6ac216d19dda51e4fff1ad48a5f1b3d
parent b8e4df01dd1aa61b3de978e4874c81b0d23349d5

os: explain ProccessState.Exited()  SIGKILL interaction

When a process is forcefully killed (for example, with SIGKILL on unix), its ProccessState.Exited() will return false.

Change-Id: I8cebc8d28f2ba1b687c145f6d941647fc3a10665
GitHub-Last-Rev: 414ae1980fe61dd530c46cc2c7f4de3a5bc83ed5
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#48871
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/354698
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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src/os/exec.go

diff --git a/src/os/exec.go b/src/os/exec.go
index bc75d4d..2beac55 100644
--- a/src/os/exec.go
+++ b/src/os/exec.go
@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@
 }
 
 // Exited reports whether the program has exited.
+// On Unix systems this reports true if the program exited due to calling exit,
+// but false if the program terminated due to a signal.
 func (p *ProcessState) Exited() bool {
 	return p.exited()
 }