Hello,

Env: Windows XP pro, Activestate Perl 5.6.1, 5.8.

I have been following the threads involving Open3:

IPC::Open3 woes
Open3 and bad gut feeling

but I noticed an issue that was not brought up it any of them.
If you timeout a process and kill it, you really only kill the CMD.exe that Open3 spawns in order to run the command specified. The only reason I noticed this, is that I did all my testing with "ping -t", and ended up with 100s of pings running on my system.

Is there any way to track what children are spawned by CMD in order to kill off everything if the command times out?

Thanks,
Steve

Edit: BazB, changed href links to [id://] links.

In reply to Killing of ALL children made by Open3 by Anonymous Monk

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