in reply to Re: forcible termination of Win32 program then restart
in thread forcible termination of Win32 program then restart

This example takes a process identifier (pid) from the command line argument and uses the api's above to kill it.

#! perl -slw use strict; use Win32::API::Prototype; ApiLink( 'kernel32', q[ HANDLE OpenProcess( DWORD dwDesiredAccess, BOOL bInheritHandle, DWORD dwProcessId ) ]) or die $^E; ApiLink( 'kernel32', q[ BOOL TerminateProcess( HANDLE hProcess, UINT uExitCode ) ]) or die $^E; my $pid = shift @ARGV or die 'No pid supplied'; ## The magic number 0x1f0fff == PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS ## See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp ## ?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/process_security_and_access_right +s.asp ## for details/other possible values. my $hProcess = OpenProcess( 0x1F0FFF, 0, $pid ) or die $^E; TerminateProcess( $hProcess, -1 ) or die $^E; __END__ c:\test>573923 784

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