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You might be able to use Win32::Process.

Here is an example of finding a process (Notepad) by executable name then monitoring it and taking action when it terminates:

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper::Concise; use Win32::Process::List; use Win32::Process; my $p = Win32::Process::List->new(); my %list = $p->GetProcesses(); foreach my $pid (keys %list) { if($list{$pid} eq 'notepad.exe') { my ($obj, $iflags); Win32::Process::Open($obj, $pid, $iflags) or die "Win32::Process::Open failed"; $obj->Wait(INFINITE); print "Done waiting\n"; exit(0); } } print "Notepad process not found\n";

And here is an example of starting Notepad from Perl, and restarting it when it exits:

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper::Concise; use Win32::Process; my $obj; while(1) { Win32::Process::Create($obj, "C:\\windows\\system32\\notepad.exe", "notepad", 0, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, ".") or die "Failed to start notepad"; $obj->Wait(INFINITE); print "Notepad exited - restarting\n"; }

If you want to do something while the process continues to run, you can do that too:

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper::Concise; use Win32::Process; my $obj; while(1) { Win32::Process::Create($obj, "C:\\windows\\system32\\notepad.exe", "notepad", 0, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, ".") or die "Failed to start notepad"; while(1) { $obj->Wait(10000); my $exit_code; $obj->GetExitCode($exit_code); if($exit_code == Win32::Process::STILL_ACTIVE()) { print localtime() . ": Do something while notepad runs\n"; } else { print localtime() . ": Do something when notepad terminate +s\n"; last; } } }