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Creating Processes with Win32
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Win32;
use Win32::Process;
$ApplicationName = 'c:\\winnt\\system32\\notepad.exe';
$CommandLine = 'notepad';
$CreateOptions = NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS | DETACHED_PROCESS;
Win32::Process::Create($ProcessObj,$ApplicationName,$CommandLine,
0, # Don't inherit.
$CreateOptions,
".") # current dir.
or die print_error();
$ProcessObj->Wait(INFINITE) or warn print_error();
$ProcessObj->GetExitCode($ExitCode) or warn print_error();
print "[$CommandLine] exited with $ExitCode\n";
sub print_error {
print Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::GetLastError() );
}
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