Thu Feb 09 03:03:13 2012: Request 65745 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
Queue: PAR-Packer
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: d...@dirkundsari.de
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65745 >
On 2011-02-15 13:31:40, Dirk80 wrote:
> If I create a process from a perl script with "open" or
> "Win32::Process::Create" and this process is a "pp packed executable"
> then it is NOT possible to send it the kill signal. Because the "pid" I
> get from "open" or "Win32::Process::Create" does NOT seem to be the pid
> of the unpacked perl script which is finally doing the work.
Your observation is correct, but can't be fixed:
it's due to how PAR::Packer works (and the fact that Windows
doesn't have a exec system call, only spawn).
Cheers, Roderich
