i was referring to the entire line (ie, the command).
and i stand by my former reply: try the win32::* modules for interaction
with windows first, before reinventing the wheel.
Jos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jos I. Boumans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: perl scripts
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:14:25PM +0200, Jos I. Boumans wrote:
> > it's in the last line:
> > kill 'HUP',`cat $PIDFILE`;
> >
> > it's a unix command to kill *nix processes... which of course won't work
on
> > windows...
>
> kill does work on Windows, and in 5.6.1 (possibly 5.6.0 too) even works on
> arbitrary process numbers. See perldoc perlport.
>
> Though it very well could be that kill on Windows doesn't understand
'HUP',
> and would prefer a number, rather than a name.
>
>
> Michael
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