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Changes for version 0.48

  • -Pulled commits from Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>, fixes build errors on NetBSD and OpenBSD. Fixed #72862 (byte order tag in cache file), applied patch to fix #67224 (cygwin PID_ORPHANED) by <rurban at x-ray.at>. Pulled FreeBSD patches from Slaven Rezić <SREZIC@cpan.org>; Pulled from David Zaebst <zaebst@gmail.com>): Fixes to stay accurate on machines with many cpus (#82175), to include system time into calculations (#80391) and others (#81312, #82175 and #80391) and to fix unknown process states for debian kernels #71976. Tried to get it compiling under MidnightBSD.

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