[rt.cpan.org #67774] A safer alternative to TerminateProcess() ?

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Tue Apr 26 16:00:53 2011: Request 67774 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by APOCAL
       Queue: Win32-Process
     Subject: A safer alternative to TerminateProcess() ?
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 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67774 >


Hello,

  I was browsing the interwebs and found this page.

  http://drdobbs.com/windows/184416547?pgno=1

  I noticed that various CPAN smokers sometimes gets "wedged" on win32
because they attempt to kill the smoking process and in turn, it wedges
the Perl DLL. While I have encountered this a few times, others have
said it happens with regularity.

  I thought this would be a good workaround, and is willing to help add
this functionality to the module. What do you think? If it was to be
added, it should be called something like
Win32::Process::SafeKillProcess() and $ProcessObj->SafeKill();

  If this is a viable concept and if we can get it to work, I'll be very
happy and will prod the various CPAN toolchain authors to use it on
MSWin32 so we have a safer smoking environment :)

  Thanks again!

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~Apocalypse