I was surprised that this wasn't supported. I checked why, and it kinda sucks. The code for win32_waitpid() [which was written in order to port Perl] accepts a flags argument and just ignores it. And then it goes on to do:

DWORD waitcode = WaitForSingleObject(hProcess, INFINITE);

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We need a simple patch that defines WNOHANG as 1 and then does:

DWORD waittime= (WNOHANG&flags) ? 0 : INFINITE;
DWORD waitcode = WaitForSingleObject(hProcess, INFINITE);

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I don't supposed you'd like to produce such a patch to save me the time, would you? Or at least report it to the perl5-porters.

In reply to Re: win32 nonblocking waitpid() by tye
in thread win32 nonblocking waitpid() by Anonymous Monk

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