What is the proper way to kill on Windows a process which has been started with a forked Windows call, i.e. system(1,...)? I'm trying the following: 

my $pid=system(1,"my_prog.bat");
...
    if(kill(9,$pid)) {
      print "Killing $pid was not successful\n" if kill(0,$pid);
    } else {
      print "Signal did not reach process $pid\n";
    }

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I always get "Killing ... was not successful".

I know that the process is still running at the time the first kill is issued. The purpose of the second kill (with 0 zero) is to ensure that the process really got killed. If it was, kill should return 0 (no such process), but it returns non-zero, showing that the process still lives. Indeed, I can see from the output that the "killed" process happily runs to the end.
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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

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