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process.kill with IO.popen
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test.rb
a = IO.popen('ls', 'w')
pid = a.pid
Process.kill 0, pid # should return 1, jruby on linux doesn't do this, MRI does
a.close
Process.kill 0, pid # should raise EPERM. Unfortunately with jruby for windows matching parity with MRI, this doesn't raise EPERM, meaning that somehow the process mustt have been left in a zombie state.
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