I also would like to know if it is possible. However, it could be that it has nothing to do with Cygwin. I have a Perl script which forks several children and monitors their output.
If a child fails, then it has no use to run all forked processes further
and I kill them with the perl 'kill' command. However, I also notice that
deeper forked processes (grandchildren) refuse to die. This
script is only run using ActiveState Perl.
I think it is really a serious Windows problem, because using
the task manager it also seems not really possible to kill a complete
process hierarchy.
Regards,
Jurgen Defurne
Sonam Chauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: problems in Perl process management
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Hello -
I'd appreciate help with problems doing process management in Cygwin/Perl.
I have a Perl application that creates child processes - I need it to kill
processes that exceed a certain timeout. I am trying to use the
Proc::ProcessTable and Proc::Killfam CPAN modules for this.
I ran into two problems:
The first problem was a "can't stat /dev" error message produced when
calling Proc::Killfam. This problem was fixed by a script I found that
populated entries under /dev.
To understand the next probem, have a look at the simple test script
attached. The script forks a child process, which runs `sleep` in a third
process. The parent process then tries to kill both children on expiry of
a
timeout. The script behaves perfectly on Linux -- it works as expected and
kills the fork-ed child Perl process, as well it's `sleep` child process.
However, on Cygwin/Perl it only kills the fork-ed Perl child - it cannot
kill the `sleep`-ing child.
The problem seems to be that the process table data returned by
Proc::ProcessTable seems to differ from the data returned 'ps'.
Specifically, Proc::ProcessTable returns the WINPID of a process as the
PID
for the backticked `sleep` process.
The closest issue I found in the list archives is this one:
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00224.html
It does not seem to have been resolved.
I'm running Perl on Cygwin on Windows XP SP2. Running 'cygcheck -c' gives
the following package status for cygwin and Perl:
--------------------------
cygwin 1.5.16-1 OK
perl 5.8.6-4 OK
--------------------------
Can anyone help?
Regards,
Sonam Chauhan
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