LPM: Q: End a process/program under NT?

[Rich Bowen]

llang at baywestpaper.com wrote:
> 
> Having only (thus far) used Perl for general text wrangling and input
> mutilation, and not being able to dig in and use it on a daily basis to
> learn the proverbial finer points of it, I now find myself faced with the
> following:
> 
> We have a process that runs in the system tray under NT.  I'd like to be
> able to shut it down, but do so kindly.  In essence, I want to send it the
> equivalent of an ALT-F4 (I guess that'd be an exit signal??)  Doing that
> will make it shut down all of it's internal comm threads in the proper way
> and such niceties.  Can someone push me in the direction of the right
> module to look at (Win32::{OLE || Process || other}) and a general run-down
> of how-to?  (Bear in mind that I've never had cause to do process
> manipulation/management before and that I'm a reluctant NT newbie.)  :-)

Although the docs are less than wonderful, Win32::Process looks like it
might be the way to go. You can do a Win32::Process::KillProcess($pid,
$exitcode) to kill a process, if you know the PID. It also appears that
you can use Win32::PerfLib to get the process ID, given the name. Or at
least get a list of processes, from which you can select the one that
you're interested in.

Rich
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