Re: Spawning and controlling

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:11

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Denville Longhurst wrote:

>1. Check whether foo.exe is already running so that I don't attempt to run 
>it twice;

Use acess() to check if the file is writable.
When the program is running, it is not writable.
If the file is marked as read-only, or resides on a CD, then this
method will fail.

>2. Spawn foo.exe

Use CreateProcess()

>4. From my app, terminate foo.exe

CreateProcess() returns handles that can be used to terminate the
process.

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