doc: update subprocess.killed

This commit changes the wording of subprocess.killed to reflect that a child process was successfully signaled, and not necessarily terminated. Fixes: #16747 PR-URL: #16748 Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
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@@ -904,10 +904,11 @@ added: v0.5.10
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 * {boolean} Set to `true` after `subprocess.kill()` is used to successfully
-  terminate the child process.
+  send a signal to the child process.
 
-The `subprocess.killed` property indicates whether the child process was
-successfully terminated using `subprocess.kill()`.
+The `subprocess.killed` property indicates whether the child process
+successfully received a signal from `subprocess.kill()`. The `killed` property
+does not indicate that the child process has been terminated.
 
 <a name="child_process_child_pid"></a>
 ### subprocess.pid