🚀 go-pugleaf

Colin B Maharaj wrote:

>You see when I call an external program, it seems to
>be attached somehow with the calling process in that
>If I stop my application (in the BCB IDE) my
>application does not close unless all called processes
>are stopped.

I think that might be an IDE issue, not an issue with your code.

But, there are a few things I would change...

>   STARTUPINFO             siStartInfo;
>   // Set up members of STARTUPINFO structure.
>   siStartInfo.cb          = sizeof(STARTUPINFO);
>   siStartInfo.lpReserved  = NULL;
>   siStartInfo.lpReserved2 = NULL;
>   siStartInfo.cbReserved2 = 0;
>   siStartInfo.lpDesktop   = NULL;
>   siStartInfo.lpTitle     = Title;
>   siStartInfo.dwFlags     = 0;

Why aren't you setting All members to 0 ?
Easiest way to do the above is

   STARTUPINFO             siStartInfo = {sizeof(STARTUPINFO), 0};
   siStartInfo.lpTitle     = Title;

>   char *cmdln_str = new char [MAX_PATH];

Why are your putting this on the heap?
Faster is
	char	cmdln_str[MAX_PATH+1];

>   strncpy(cmdln_str, strCmdLine.c_str(), MAX_PATH);

Even faster would be to use strCmdLine.c_str() directly in the
CreateProcess call.

>     GetExitCodeProcess(piProcInfo.hProcess, &exitCode);

	Why are you doing this here?
There isn't much chance that the spawned application has even finished
initialization yet, let alone run to completion?