(Ovid - you can't get there from here (Windows))

I'm launching a Windows based program with this script.

That's your problem, then. Windows does not allow you to fork. You'll need to simulate fork, but I wouldn't guarantee the results. Assuming you're running ActivePerl, you can read about this here.

Cheers,
Ovid

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Re: (Ovid - you can't get there from here (Windows)) by zigster (Hermit) on Dec 08, 2000 at 15:39 UTC
More importantly WINDOWS does not support signals so I guess kill is not going to work. -- Zigster	[reply]
Re: Re: (Ovid - you can't get there from here (Windows)) by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Dec 09, 2000 at 06:35 UTC
ActiveState's implementation emulates kill just as it emulates fork. Both of these simply use "pseudo-process ID's" instead of a system's real PID for the process. Everything technically runs in one process. See the link Ovid gave for details.	[reply]