Changes for version 0.39 - 2003-10-03

  • -Project is now hosted on SourceForge. Patch from Aaron Sherman <ajs@ajs.com> from rt.cpan.org ticket #2578 to add a warn function ppt_warn() instead of sending errors to stderr; changed linux, bsdi and aix. Added ppt_croak and updated PORTING docs. Added port to Darwin from Tom Wyant <twyant3@comcast.net>. Added port to Nonstop-UX from Mike Steinert <mike.steinert@motorola.com>. Patch from James.FitzGibbon <James.FitzGibbon@target.com> for AIX 5.1 command line args. Added note to README.dec_osf that root access is required.

Modules

Kill all instances of a process by pattern matching the command-line
kill a list of pids, and all their sub-children
Perl process objects
Perl extension to access the unix process table

Examples