Re^5: Stop Command In Perl

[mbethke]

Sure, I'd expect the signal emulation in Windows to be incompatible in some way but this particular phenomenon I blame on buffering. It's very very likely that the "echo" will have finished its output before the Perl process gets scheduled again so by the time the while() starts the whole output is sitting in STDIN's buffer already. You could try spawning the Windows equivalent of "(echo one; sleep 1; echo two)" and kill()ing that.

[monsoon]

Tried. Still get
one
two
with this

perl -e "$pid = open PIPE, '-|', 'echo one && ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 >nul
+ && echo two';$/=' '; while (<PIPE>){ print $_ . \"\n\"; kill 2, $pid
+}"

Doesn't look like a buffering issue, more of a kill portability one.

[mbethke]

Well, in this case you'd have to leave $/ alone because there will be no spaces in your output, only newlines. There should be an extra blank line at the end of your output, right? The replies to this suggest kill 2, $pid does indeed work on Windows.