You really need to use Win32::Process ?

This module is design for call external programs (not created with perl)... Try use Perl's language and resources to do it.

See perlipc's Background-Process and fork references.

Skel code:

use strict;
use warnings;
 my $pid = fork();
  unless ( defined($pid) ) {
     die "fork failure! ";

   elsif ( $pid ) {
      # child
      $SIG{HUP} = sub { print "HUP signal\n"; };
      sleep(5);

      #-->> if use an external script, and not a file with parameters
      #>>>> reguire 'c:\perl\progs\garbl.pl';
      exit 1;
  }

  sleep(2);

  kill(15,$pid);
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other resources: waitpid, wait, alarm...

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