Hello-

I would like to kill a processid in perl and I want to verify whether it actually killed the process. If it fails I need to try it again one more time otherwise exist.
Is Win32::Process::KillProcess is the best method to kill a process in perl for an application running on windows environment?
Will KillProcess return true on success?
what this exit code means will that tells me it was a success?
How can I check with an exitcode or returnCode and make sure a process acually killed?
should I call
TRYAGAIN:
my $exitcode = 0;
my $count = 0;
Win32::Process::KillProcess($pid, $exitcode);
# is the method just issue the kill command here and moving # or is it
+ really waits until the process gets killed?
if ($exitCode != 1) { # is this a right check?
    ++$count;
   if ($count == 2) { 
       print "Error: Failed Killing: " . $pid; 
       exit;
   }
   goto TRYAGAIN
}

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In reply to Kill a process in perl windows and proceed only if it killed the process by Anonymous Monk

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