ANNOUNCE: Process ID Extension for Win32

[Michael Schlenker]

Ed Suominen wrote:
> The::pid:: extension gives TCL developers the process-control
> functionality of the 'ps' and 'kill' commands on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2K,
> and XP platforms (not NT):
>
> ::pid::ps - List processes by executable name and PID
> ::pid::kill - Kill process by PID
>
> The DLL was built against TCL 8.4b2/threads using SWIG 1.3, and will
> hopefully work under other versions of TCL as well. The extension
> appears to be thread-safe. If it doesn't work on your TCL installation,
> you can compile using the included source.

This would fit nicely into TclX (where pid and kill support for unix can
be found, but Win32 is missing), wouldn't it?

Michael Schlenker

[Michael Schlenker]

Jeffrey Hobbs wrote:

> Michael Schlenker wrote:
>
>> Ed Suominen wrote:
>>
>>> The::pid:: extension gives TCL developers the process-control
>>> functionality of the 'ps' and 'kill' commands on Windows 95, 98,
>>> ME, 2K, and XP platforms (not NT):
>>>
>>> ::pid::ps - List processes by executable name and PID
>>> ::pid::kill - Kill process by PID
>>
>

>> This would fit nicely into TclX (where pid and kill support for
>> unix can be found, but Win32 is missing), wouldn't it?
>

> > Actually kill in TclX works on Windows as well, although the docs may
> not admit it. I don't think there is any ps command in TclX for
> unix or windows.

No ps, but [id pid] (thats what i was thinking about...). Will the kill
feature in TclX for Win32 be documented in the future?

Michael Schlenker

[Jeffrey Hobbs]

Michael Schlenker wrote:
> Ed Suominen wrote:
>> The::pid:: extension gives TCL developers the process-control
>> functionality of the 'ps' and 'kill' commands on Windows 95, 98, ME,
>> 2K, and XP platforms (not NT):
>>
>> ::pid::ps - List processes by executable name and PID
>> ::pid::kill - Kill process by PID

> This would fit nicely into TclX (where pid and kill support for unix can

> be found, but Win32 is missing), wouldn't it?

Actually kill in TclX works on Windows as well, although the docs may not

admit it. I don't think there is any ps command in TclX for unix or windows.

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[Martin Lemburg EDS PLM solutions]

Michael Schlenker <sch...@uni-oldenburg.de> wrote in message news:<3D85134A...@uni-oldenburg.de>...

TclX? Isn't a bit crazy to use TclX just to get the functionality of
the pid-package?
I prefer to use a smaller dedicated package, than to use such a heavy
weigth extension library such as TclX.

But I would like to get a tcl v8.3 version! I have no SWIG and so I
have no possibility to build a tcl v8.3 version!

Can somebody help?

Regards,

Martin Lemburg

[Ed Suominen]

Just a quick note that I've fixed a bug with PID 0.9 (it wasn't
releasing a Win32 API handle) and strongly recommend anyone who
downloaded it before today get the latest version.

Also, does the extension work with TCL 8.3.x? Just curious. I can build
it against an older version if necessary, but now that TCL 8.4 is out,
I'd rather build future releases against it.

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