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doc: add Windows-specific info to subprocess.kill #34867

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Expand Up @@ -1277,6 +1277,11 @@ may not actually terminate the process.

See kill(2) for reference.

On Windows, where POSIX signals do not exist, the `signal` argument will be
ignored, and the process will be killed forcefully and abruptly (similar to
`'SIGKILL'`).
See [Signal Events][] for more details.

On Linux, child processes of child processes will not be terminated
when attempting to kill their parent. This is likely to happen when running a
new process in a shell or with the use of the `shell` option of `ChildProcess`:
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[Default Windows shell]: #child_process_default_windows_shell
[HTML structured clone algorithm]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API/Structured_clone_algorithm
[Shell requirements]: #child_process_shell_requirements
[Signal Events]: process.md#process_signal_events
[`'disconnect'`]: process.md#process_event_disconnect
[`'error'`]: #child_process_event_error
[`'exit'`]: #child_process_event_exit
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