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Date: | Tue, 10 May 2005 11:38:38 -0400 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: problems in Perl process management |
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On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:12:05PM +0200, Jurgen Defurne wrote: >I also would like to know if it is possible. > >However, it could be that it has nothing to do with Cygwin. I have >a Perl script which forks several children and monitors their output. > >If a child fails, then it has no use to run all forked processes further >and I kill them with the perl 'kill' command. However, I also notice that >deeper forked processes (grandchildren) refuse to die. This >script is only run using ActiveState Perl. ActiveState perl is a windows program. You can't send cygwin (aka unix) signals to a windows proram. >I think it is really a serious Windows problem, because using >the task manager it also seems not really possible to kill a complete >process hierarchy. XP has an option for killing the process hierarchy. Just right click on the process. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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