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From: peter
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:06

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What's the easiest way to check if a certain process is still
alive once I have the process ID?

thanks for the info. i hadn't even thought of that simple a 
solution.... =)




"Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote:
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>"peter" <pnandrus@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>news:442c3cf4$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
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>> if I use CreateProcess in process A to create process B, how
>> can I make sure B exits if A is shut down?
>
>That depends on whether A is being shut down gracefully or unexpectedly.
>
>If gracefully, then A can simply notify B to shut itself down.  How you do
>that depends on what B actually is.
>
>If unexpectedly, then the only way I can think of right now is to have A
>pass its process ID as a command line parameter when launching B, and then
>have B periodically check if that ID is still running.
>
>
>Gambit
>
>

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