Changes for version 0.40 - 2005-07-10

  • -Added patch for support of FreeBSD-5 via kvm from Oleg King <king2@kaluga.ru>. Added contrib directory and pswait script from dominix <dominix@despammed.com>. Patch from Steve Linn <steve@rhythm.com> to handle processes larger than 2GB. Added jiffies-to-microseconds patch for linux from Jason A. Smith <jason@jazbo.dyndns.org>. Added patch from rt.cpan.org ticket #12951 to fix Solaris 8 with multi-threaded Perl where readdir_r is defined differently for POSIX compiles. Patch for misreport of PID in cygwin (rt.cpan.org ticket #12840). Fix for FC4 gcc-4 buffer overrun complaint.

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