Hi Monks,

I'm having difficutly porting some CTRL-C acceptance testing from Perl 5.6.1 to Perl 5.8.8. I guess there were issues with:
kill "INT", $pid;
not working on 5.6.1, so we chose to get a Console handle from Win32::Console, and then call:
$console->GenerateCtrlEvent();
after having overriden $SIG{INT} to be ignored in the process that launched the process we want to CTRL-C. This worked great on 5.6.1, but does not work at all on 5.8.8. We never enter the $SIG{INT} handler on 5.8.8 with either the kill function or the GenerateCtrlEvent() call.

The perl process we are trying to signal is launched through on open() call. 
      open TEST, "perl $d $dir\\ControlC\\ControlC.pl $block $job \$re
+slist=$reslist \$timeout=10 $retry |";

      # capture stdout from client under test
      my $output  = '';
      while (<TEST>) { 
         $output .= $_; 
         if ( /waiting for control c/i ) {
            $SIG{INT} = 'IGNORE';
            #kill "INT", $pid;
            $console->GenerateCtrlEvent();
            Win32::Sleep(100);
            $SIG{INT} = 'DEFAULT';
         }
      }
      close TEST;

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Is there a reliable way to send a CTRL-C signal to another process using windows XPpro and Perl 5.8.8?

Thanks for your time!

In reply to Need a reliable way to send SIGINT to a perl process on 5.8.8/windows XPpro by fwashbur

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