How to kill a process/program in Perl??

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Re: How to kill a process/program in Perl?? by Joost (Canon) on Oct 23, 2006 at 21:32 UTC
take a look at Win32::Process and/or kill "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: How to kill a process/program in Perl?? by GrandFather (Saint) on Oct 23, 2006 at 21:36 UTC
What OS? Who owns the silkperfomer.exe process and who will own the "killing" process? On Windows Win32::Process::KillProcess will do the trick if you have a process ID (see Win32::Process). However you may have trouble finding the pid unless you created the process yourself. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^2: How to kill a process/program in Perl?? by sachingupta (Novice) on Oct 23, 2006 at 21:47 UTC
No one owns the silkperformer.exe. Its independent process. Its load testing tool from segue.	[reply]
Re: How to kill a process/program in Perl?? by planetscape (Chancellor) on Oct 24, 2006 at 15:44 UTC
I believe the following might help: How do i kill a process on a remote win32 machine How to kill a crashed program like Word that wasn't starter by a perl script? How can I see/manage the process list on Win32? How to kill a process after calling fork? How can I kill subprocesses when the main script dies? Good luck, planetscape	[reply]
Re: How to kill a process/program in Perl?? by yograj (Initiate) on Oct 24, 2006 at 09:57 UTC
Hi, I am a Linux user and have not worked much on Windows but I have worked on similar project. There is a module "Unix::PID" on CPAN. if($pid->is_pid_running($$)) Before you start with your actual program you can check whether the a program of similar script/program name is running. If yes then exit else continue. So you kill a process by terminating itself. No explicit copmmand is used. I know this is not the ideal soltion but am sure there must be some module in windows too. Yograj.	[reply]