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No. As you are redirecting all output to the nul device, you woudl have been better using system anyway. Backticks is only for when you want to retrieve the output.

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Re^4: kill a process with process name
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 16, 2010 at 08:44 UTC
    Instead of fork we're trying to use Win32::Job. I want some help on the watch().
    I want to kill the spawned process after a maximum timeout / if log file not updated. I tried watch(\&handler, maxTimeout) where handler() monitors the log file, but it dosen't work as I expected.
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      Instead of fork we're trying to use Win32::Job.

      Can you explain why? There are a dozen or more modules out there for doing this kind of thing on Win32, but none of them are as well-tested, simple and reliable as system 1, $cnd;.

      There are a few good reasons for choosing on or other of those modules under some circumstances. Can you explain your choice?

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