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doc: add warning about Windows process groups #3681

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Expand Up @@ -548,7 +548,8 @@ string describing the signal to send. Signal names are strings like
See [Signal Events](#process_signal_events) and kill(2) for more information.

Will throw an error if target does not exist, and as a special case, a signal
of `0` can be used to test for the existence of a process.
of `0` can be used to test for the existence of a process. Windows platforms
will throw an error if the `pid` is used to kill a process group.

Note that even though the name of this function is `process.kill`, it is really
just a signal sender, like the `kill` system call. The signal sent may do
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