// Name: utils.h
// Purpose: interface of various utility classes and functions
// Author: wxWidgets team
-// RCS-ID: $Id$
// Licence: wxWindows licence
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@c wxSIGNONE, @c wxSIGKILL and @c wxSIGTERM have the same meaning under
both Unix and Windows but all the other signals are equivalent to
- @c wxSIGTERM under Windows.
+ @c wxSIGTERM under Windows. Moreover, under Windows, @c wxSIGTERM is
+ implemented by posting a message to the application window, so it only
+ works if the application does have windows. If it doesn't, as is notably
+ always the case for the console applications, you need to use @c wxSIGKILL
+ to actually kill the process. Of course, this doesn't allow the process to
+ shut down gracefully and so should be avoided if possible.
Returns 0 on success, -1 on failure. If the @a rc parameter is not @NULL,
it will be filled with a value from the @c wxKillError enum: