Re: Kill a process in perl windows and proceed only if it killed the process

In the general case, killing a process is an asynchronous event ... it can take an arbitrary amount of time, especially if there are interactive dialog-boxes involved, and this can pragmatically result in situations like deadlock; or even actual deadlock of the user-interface. So, fire the bullet but don't wait for the body to hit the floor. Emphatically don't wait...

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Re^2: Kill a process in perl windows and proceed only if it killed the process by prashantktyagi (Scribe) on Jul 20, 2012 at 10:18 UTC
will system(kill -9 <pid>) not work here ? I am just curious...	[reply]
Re^3: Kill a process in perl windows and proceed only if it killed the process by DrHyde (Prior) on Jul 20, 2012 at 10:49 UTC
Not on Windows. And if you are on a POSIX system, why shell out instead of using the built-in `kill`?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Kill a process in perl windows and proceed only if it killed the process by gargle (Chaplain) on Jul 20, 2012 at 21:08 UTC
Indeed, on Linux I myself prefer system(shutdown -r now). -- if ( 1 ) { $postman->ring() for (1..2); }	[reply]