The only time I've ever used Win32::Process is when I wanted to test whether I could connect to a remote resigtry. What would happen is that on some machines, it would hang and the script would basically stop.

I'm not sure what exactly you want to do, but Win32::Process is basically going to launch another application from your script. Here's what I did to launch a perl one-liner to test whether or not the connection attempt would hang.

sub RegConnect {
    
    my ($pObj, $ExitCode);
    my $comp = shift;
    my $pString = "perl -MWin32::TieRegistry -e " . '"' . 
                  '$Registry->Connect(' ."'" . $comp . 
                  "', 'LMachine');" . '"';
    
    Win32::Process::Create($pObj,
                "c:\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe",
                $pString, 0,
                NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,
                ".")|| die "Can't create Perl Process: $!\n"; 

    $pObj->Wait(7000);
    $pObj->GetExitCode($ExitCode);
    if ($ExitCode) {
        $pObj->Kill(1);
        return 0;
    }
    return 1;
}

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Hope that's helpful,
Rich

In reply to Re: Using Win32::Process to prevent timeouts by rchiav
in thread Using Win32::Process to prevent timeouts by fullyloaded

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