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in thread Killing subprocess in windows

> You can also use Win32::Process to create and kill the subprocess.
That a very good idea, thanks! :)

In case it's of use, some sample code I wrote years ago to cleanly kill processes after a timeout period:

BTW, I never use fork/exec on Windows, due to limitations and general weirdness of perlfork emulation under Windows.

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Re^4: Killing subprocess in windows
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on May 21, 2021 at 11:20 UTC

    Yes, i know you don’t want to spawn…

    But consider something like this:

    use strict;
use warnings;
use threads;
use MCE::Hobo;

my $hobo = MCE::Hobo->create( sub {
    …;
});

my $pid = $hobo->pid();

# $hobo->join();

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    Update:

    «I though about sending a 'kill', but Perl doesn't seem to give me the PID.»

    Now you have one to kill.

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Re^4: Killing subprocess in windows
by LanX (Saint) on May 20, 2021 at 23:50 UTC
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