RE: Killing a process created using system Hi,
But for this you need to know the process id.
The system command doesn't returns, I think ?

~AN.

-----Original Message-----
From: Owen Cook [mailto:rcook@pcug.org.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:02 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: Killing a process created using system

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:12:38PM +0530, Nath, Alok (STSD) wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Can I send a kill signal to a process which is created using 
> 	system call ?
> 
> 	Basically I wanted to send a CTRL-C signal to the process 
> 	created by system call (of course in the same program).
> 	
> 	Something like this :
> 	
> 	sub test()
> 	{
> 		system (create process)
> 
> 		now send kill signal ??
> 	
> 		system (create next process)	
> 	}
> 	Is it possible ?
> 





maybe you want to look at

perldoc -f kill
perldoc -f getppid

as a starter to get you going



Owen

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