Re: How to portably stop processes?

Actually fork and exec don't "work fine" on Windows :-( They're cheap approximations that have all sorts of bad consequences for programs written in a Unix mindset. You can read about it on Proc::Background::Win32

That module is also my recommendation for how to handle your problem. (disclaimer: I'm the maintainer) (and bah, there's a POD bug on that page. I'll get that fixed...)

Oh, but if you use cygwin perl, fork and exec work fine and do create new processes.

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Re^2: How to portably stop processes? by haj (Vicar) on Mar 31, 2023 at 18:54 UTC
Actually fork and exec don't "work fine" on Windows :-( Fair enough: I should have been more specific. They were good enough for my particular problem ... until I wanted to have "infinite" processes. And indeed, Proc::Background is pretty much exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks a lot!	[reply]
Re^3: How to portably stop processes? (OSPrereqs) by LanX (Saint) on Mar 31, 2023 at 22:13 UTC
> > > If I just use Win32::Process, then this would be a dependency also on Linux, which is unwanted > And indeed, Proc::Background is pretty much exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks a lot! Well ... Proc::Background relies on Win32::Process `package Proc::Background::Win32; $Proc::Background::Win32::VERSION = '1.30'; # ABSTRACT: Windows-specific implementation of process create/wait/kil +l ... use Win32::Process qw( NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS INFINITE ); # <--- ...` [download] update and that's how it's avoided as dependency on Linux https://metacpan.org/release/NERDVANA/Proc-Background-1.30/source/dist.ini `[OSPrereqs / MSWin32] Win32::Process = 0.04 Win32::ShellQuote = 0.003001` [download] Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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