X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/19c453d0aca1b76b201d0acf874b01efc2241b6a..36a0190ebd5bd9a7302f60f6dcd608b80574e21c:/interface/wx/utils.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/utils.h b/interface/wx/utils.h
index 4a8a54ef65..5573a19b93 100644
--- a/interface/wx/utils.h
+++ b/interface/wx/utils.h
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 // Name:        utils.h
 // Purpose:     interface of various utility classes and functions
 // Author:      wxWidgets team
-// RCS-ID:      $Id$
 // Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
@@ -1278,7 +1277,12 @@ unsigned long wxGetProcessId();
 
     @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: