Kill a process in Perl

Hi,

I am trying to kill an external process called out in Perl after certain seconds.

I am using Windows.

I want to call out "a.exe" in perl in a new thread (so that the main perl program can go on). Then I want to kill the "a.exe" after 30 seconds before a.exe naturally ends by itself which usually takes 10mins ?

I must kill it by it's process ID but not the process name, because I will run many a.exe at the same time, and I only want the perl to kill its own a.exe. But, I have no idea how to get process ID also...

Please kindly help me. Thanks in advance!

Uzers.

re: Kill a process in Perl

Thanks PerlMonks! My problem was solved. Any interested in this issue please see http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=779114

Uzers.

re: Kill a process in Perl

jeez, how many forums and sub forums did you post this one? At least you can back and altered them all you found a solution.