Windows child process

[SSG1]

Is there a way to find out all the child processes and their process ids that have been spawned by a parent process if you just have the parent process name ? I need to find a way to do this in PERL by today. Can someone help ?????

Thanks

 

[yauncin]

Is it a process you started with a script or just random processes? What OS? On unix many applications have a file that holds there process Id. And In some cases if you kill the parent you kill the child. It just depends on what you are dealing with.

 

[yauncin]

duh! I should read titles more...... I can't help you with windows programming... I'm only now learning it and with VB no less. My apologies.

 

[SSG1]

Thanks for trying to help though.
This is a process that has been started spawned by a parent process on Windows which was started by a script.

Does anyone else have any clues ?????

 

[MikeLacey]

Have a look at the example in Win32:erfLib documentation Mike
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