Hi again, I am obtaining the PID via Dave Roth's code from proclist.pl :
# WMI Win32_Process class
$CLASS= "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}$machine\\Root\\cimv
+2";
$WMI= Win32::OLE->GetObject($CLASS) || die;
foreach my $process (sort {lc $a->{Name} cmp lc $b->{Name}} in($WMI->I
+nstancesOf("Win32_Process"))) {
  if($process->{Name} eq 'GravitixService.exe' || $process->{ProcessID
+} eq 'Gravitix.exe') {
    # Store the Gravitix process ID
    $pid= $process->{ProcessID};
  }
}

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The PID ($pid) I get from this method is valid, I have verified that it is via a simple fkill on that PID.
But, the following scenarios still do not work i.e. the process remains up and no kill operation appears to go through. I am coding on a Windows 2003 machine :
kill method #1
my $x= Win32::Process::KillProcess($pid, $exitcode);

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result -- nothing, process is not killed
value of $x = 26423748


kill method #2
my $y= Win32::Process::Open($p_obj, $pid, 0);
$p_obj->Kill(0);

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result -- nothing, process is not killed
value of $y= 0

I am at a loss as to WHY KillProcess is doing nothing in method #1, and in the case of method #2, why are Win32::Process:KillProcess and Win32::Process::Open both returning 0 ??

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Win32::Process::KillProcess by jimbobfurley
in thread Win32::Process::KillProcess by jimbobfurley

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