Hello most esteemed PerlMonks, I am currently coding a simple script which kills a particular process, and then once another condition is met, restarts that same process.
My problem is the following code doesn't seem to kill the process :
    $pid= $Proc->{ProcessID};       
    Win32::Process::Open($p_obj, $pid, 1);
    $p_obj->GetExitCode($exitcode);
    Win32::Process::KillProcess($pid, $exitcode);

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What I end up with is a correct process ID, and an exitcode, but the process does not die ! There are
no errors returned either ...
Am I doing something wrong here ?
Thanks a lot in advance !
Travis Weir
P.S. I am a beginner with Perl ... Please go easy
on me ... :)

In reply to Win32::Process::KillProcess by jimbobfurley

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