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In case it's of use, I wrote a couple of scripts years ago to run an external command on both Unix and Windows, killing it if it took more than a specified timeout, and reporting how long it took to run:

Timing and timing out Unix commands (using fork, exec, kill, waitpid)
Timing Windows commands (first attempt using Win32::Process)
Re: Timing Windows commands (improved version using Win32::Job)

I enjoyed using Win32::Job much more that Win32::Process. BTW, I never use fork/exec emulation on Windows, too much general weirdness and confusion between threads and processes for my tastes.

In reply to Re: How to portably stop processes? by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread How to portably stop processes? by haj

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