Fellow Monks,

I wrote a script which I start with a batch file in the Startup directory using a batch file similar to
@c:\path\to\perl.exe c:\path\to\myscript.pl
The ampersand suppresses the CMD windows from showing up as an empty black box, making my Perl script run in the background. Because my script does something like 

while(1){
    DoSomething();
    sleep(600);
}

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my script remains always alive. The problem is that when I then try to shutdown windows, the shutdown is first delayed for about 10 seconds, then Windows complains that CMD.exe is not responding, and I have to manually kill the process by pressing the End Process button.

Are there any special tricks for terminating Perl scripts on Windowns shutdown?

In reply to Exiting batch-started Perl script on WinXP shutdown by gri6507

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