Re: Need a reliable way to send SIGINT to a perl process on 5.8.8/windows XPpro

Perhaps you're doing this the wrong way, and you should rather try to kill it with Win32::Process, using KillProcess?

Win32::Process::KillProcess($pid, $exitcode)

Terminates any process identified by $pid. $exitcode will be set to the exit code of the process.

If I read this right, $pid should just be a number.

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Re^2: Need a reliable way to send SIGINT to a perl process on 5.8.8/windows XPpro by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 09, 2007 at 12:16 UTC
I could be wrong, but the way I read the OP, they aren't trying to kill the process, but rather automate the testing of ^C handling for CLI apps. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]
Re^2: Need a reliable way to send SIGINT to a perl process on 5.8.8/windows XPpro by fwashbur (Sexton) on Mar 09, 2007 at 21:19 UTC
We definitely don't want to kill the process, we want to run the interrupt handler first before we kill it. Manually doing CTRL-C works great, now we need to simulate that programmatically to do acceptance testing of our interrupt handler.	[reply]