in reply to Win32: Starting and stopping processes (part 1)

Ostensibly, this is effectively equivalent and should work fine -- though I'm less sure about "DGRAM sockets" -- on windows:

#! perl -slw
use strict;

my @pids;

$SIG{'INT'} = sub {
    kill 'INT', @pids;
};

push @pids, system 1, $_ for qw[ 
    ctrlman.pl
    pidman.pl
    progman.pl
    webman.pl
];

while( 1 ) {
    ## do stuff;
}

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That said, I'd almost certainly use threads & queues rather than processes and sockets.

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