On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Jenda Krynicky <je...@krynicky.cz> wrote:
> From: Jonathan Harris <jtnhar...@googlemail.com> > > As it seems that Win32::Process::KillProcess is having difficulties > killing > > a hanging process, I thought that it would probably make sense to ask the > > system to do it directly > > > > So, in the sub 'kill_it', I have replaced the line > > > > Win32::Process::KillProcess ($new_pid, \$exitcode); > > > > with > > > > system 'Taskkill /PID ' . ($new_pid); > > > > I am using 'system' rather than 'exec' as it returns a success status; > > 'exec' is silent in this respect > > The fairly confusingly named fuction exec() never returns! > It's supposed to be used if you are done executing your program and > want to switch to executing a different one ... usually after you > fork()ed ... that is cloned the process. > > The way processed are started in unix is a little ... awkward. > Instead of telling the system you want to execute some program with > some parameters, you are supposed to split in two and in one of the > clones, after you are finished setting things up, morph into another > program. Kinda hacky. > > Jenda > ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== > When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed > to get drunk and croon as much as they like. > -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > Hi Jenda Thanks for the clarification on exec() and 'system' Processes in Unix have so far seemed easier to handle - if you want them destroyed, a 'kill -9' signal really does the job! In Windows, the steps have not appeared as straight forwards as there are a few different ways to end a process - taskkill, process -k etc etc Hopefully, the taskkill will do the job! Thanks for your input Jon
