Re^3: more problems running a program that hogs the termnial

I tried kill 1 and kill 9 -- neither work.

Then something's wrong. Signal 9 is SIGKILL. When a program is issued a SIGKILL, it must exit. The operating system ensures that. Nothing can trap a SIGKILL. Something tells me that you're not sending a signal to the correct process. How are you trying to issue the kill?

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Re^4: more problems running a program that hogs the termnial by GaijinPunch (Pilgrim) on Apr 15, 2005 at 06:00 UTC
The kill is never executed... that's the point. I've got it in my script, but until something kills the pid created by the file handle, the script will not continue.	[reply]
Re^4: more problems running a program that hogs the termnial by GaijinPunch (Pilgrim) on Apr 15, 2005 at 06:11 UTC
It's not getting executed...that's the problem. The script will not go anywhere until the $pid is killed. In this case, I have to do it externeally or by typing quit in the terminal. Anyone can emulate this if they've got a Unix-ish system. `my $pid = open(DUMP, "top\|") \|\| die $!; # or 'prstat' will work while ( <DUMP> ) { chomp; print "$_\n"; } kill 9, $pid;` [download] I tried using IOC::Open2, assuming I can write "quit" (which will kill the program) but since script isn't going anywhere...	[reply] [d/l]