Killing a windows process

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Hi,

I'm starting a bunch of processes using win32/process
(http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/). I want to be able to
kill some of those processes. In *nix, I'd send them a TERM signal.
What's the Windows equivalent?

Thanks,
Joe

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signal = 4 # or 9 if you really want to take it out :slight_smile:
Process.kill signal, pid

pth

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On 10/27/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm starting a bunch of processes using win32/process
(http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/\). I want to be able to
kill some of those processes. In *nix, I'd send them a TERM signal.
What's the Windows equivalent?

Thanks,
Joe

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I'm using win32/process's Create function to start a new Windows
process.

However, if I do a Process.kill(0, <pid>) to a program that I started
via Ruby, it always returns back an array with the pid in it, even if
the process was killed.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Joe

Patrick Hurley wrote:

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signal = 4 # or 9 if you really want to take it out :slight_smile:
Process.kill signal, pid

pth

On 10/27/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm starting a bunch of processes using win32/process
> (http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/\). I want to be able to
> kill some of those processes. In *nix, I'd send them a TERM signal.
> What's the Windows equivalent?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>