I want to kill a process which was started with Win32::Process::Create. Just to make clear what about I want to achieve, here a few lines of Unix shell scripting, which I am more familiar with: 

# This example is bash or similar
myprog &
bpid=$!
....
kill -KILL $bpid

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Here is my Perl solution: 
Win32::Process::Create($process_obj,....);
....
# Kill! Kill! Kill!
$process_obj->Kill(9);

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My questions:
  1. Is this really a safe solution, or could there be circumstances where my code would fail?
  2. Also, to what extent could "Kill" be blocking? For example, if Kill allowed the process being killed to gracefully shut down, and is waiting until the process is really gone, it might be that the killer process has to wait until this is done.
  3. If the process being killed, has spawn own subprocesses, will they be killed too automatically?

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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Killing a process on Windows (Win32::Process question) by rovf

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