The kill method does not send signals on windows. See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlport.html. I spent a long time determining how to start a process on windows and then send a ctrl-c "signal". The secret is perl shares the console with the application that was started. Enjoy! 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32;
use Win32::Process;
use Win32::Process 'STILL_ACTIVE';
use Win32::Process::Info qw{NT};
use Win32::Console;

my $exe = $ARGV[0]; 
my $params = $ARGV[1];
my $appWorkingDir = $ARGV[2];
my $signalPollIntervalMillisec = $ARGV[3];
my $signalKillFile = $ARGV[4];
my $signalShutdownFile = $ARGV[5];

# Never die, only when child process terminates
$SIG{INT} = 'IGNORE';
$SIG{TERM} = 'IGNORE';

my $ProcessObj;
my $success = Win32::Process::Create($ProcessObj,$exe,$params,0,NORMAL
+_PRIORITY_CLASS,$appWorkingDir);
if ( $success ) {
  my $pid = $ProcessObj->GetProcessID();
  while ( 'true' ) {
    $ProcessObj->Wait($signalPollIntervalMillisec);
    $ProcessObj->GetExitCode($exitcode);
    if ( $exitcode == STILL_ACTIVE ) {
        # Take action base on some flag 
        if ( -e $signalKillFile ) {
            kill -9, $pid;
            exit -3;
        } elsif ( -e $signalShutdownFile ) {
            my $CONSOLE = Win32::Console->new();
            $CONSOLE->GenerateCtrlEvent(CTRL_C_EVENT);
        }
    } else {
        # Process terminated on it's own
        exit $exitcode;
    }
}
}

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In reply to Re^4: How do I cleanly kill a spawned process on Win32. by Anonymous Monk
in thread How do I cleanly kill a spawned process on Win32. by DrWhy

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