Re^2: Killing a process on Windows (Win32::Process question)

Thanks a lot for the elaborate and extremely helpful answer!

For example 9, translates to The storage control block address is invalid.

I didn't know that there are exit codes with predefined meaning. Do you happen to know where I find a list of these codes? In my case, the reason would be "Killing because of Timeout" (the process runs for too long time).

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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

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Re^3: Killing a process on Windows (Win32::Process question) by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 13, 2009 at 15:44 UTC
16000 and counting. You can look through to find something very specific for your purposes--which would be a damn sight easier if they would put them all on one searchable page. A couple that might be suitable that I already encountered before are: `ERROR_CONTROL_C_EXIT 572 (0x23C) ERROR_FATAL_APP_EXIT 713 (0x2C9)` [download] Generic enough that they aren't likely to be confused with any "expected values"--specific enough to suggest something abnormal happened. 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] [d/l]
Re^3: Killing a process on Windows (Win32::Process question) by cdarke (Prior) on May 13, 2009 at 15:41 UTC
winerror.h The closest I can find is ERROR_TIMEOUT which has a value of 1460. Unfortunately the Windows implementation of Perl does not allow return codes > 255 from a process (because of Perl's UNIX history).	[reply]
Re^4: Killing a process on Windows (Win32::Process question) by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 13, 2009 at 15:50 UTC
Perl does not allow return codes > 255 from a process Perl screws up dealing with return codes internally, but it does allow perl processes to return values greater than 255: `C:\test>perl -e"exit(511)" & echo %errorlevel% 511` [download] 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] [d/l]