How can I see/manage the process list on Win32?

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Re: How can I see/manage the process list on Win32?⭐ by gaggio (Friar) on Jul 27, 2000 at 18:26 UTC
To get the process list (a hash with the pids as a key, use my function). As said before, this function works for the local machine or for a remote machine - just give the ip you want (127.0.0.1 for the local machine). Then you can just find the pid you want to kill (by doing a search on the processes names, probably) and use the function Win32::Process::KillProcess, like this: `my $actually_killed = Win32::Process::KillProcess($pid,0);` [download] Please note that you should check that the function is returning the pid you killed, to test if it did it OK.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How can I see/manage the process list on Win32? by talexb (Chancellor) on Sep 17, 2002 at 19:36 UTC
As an addendum to gaggio's answer, please note that this works only on Windows ME, 2000 and NT and does not work for Windows 95 or 98, probably due to differences in architecture.	[reply]
Re: How can I see/manage the process list on Win32? by machinecraig (Monk) on Feb 06, 2005 at 11:08 UTC
This is not a perl solution, but I've had very good sucess with using a tool from the guys at Sysinternals. Check out their psutils. In their utility package, pslist.exe will most likely do everything you need. Another great solution is to check out the GNU Utilities that have been blessed with Windows ports. There's also probably, almost definitely, a ResKit utility. I know none of these solutions are perlish, but IMHO - it makes more sense to call a small executable then to have to write up an implementation of ps.	[reply]


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