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Per a previous post, kill() was not completely ported to win32.

It's a little more complicated than that. As I mentioned forks are threads on win32, so you are trying to signal from one thread of a process to another thread of the same process. But which thread receives that signal? Did the signal handler get cloned?

Whilst Perl emulates signals between real perl processes using win32 message queues, only a very limited number of signals are trappable. Namely, INT, QUIT, TERM, and BREAK. All other values are immediatly translated into TerminateProcess(). Unfortunately this information is not documented anywhere.

If you have any suggestions for alternatives, I would love to hear them.

Um.. look ^^up :)

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