Re^2: Kill a process in perl windows and proceed only if it killed the process

will system(kill -9 <pid>) not work here ? I am just curious...

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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]