Re: launching separate program

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From: Ted Lyngmo
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:18

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Blake Young wrote:
 >
 > I want to be able to call an application and
 > have it live separately from the calling program. I don't want to wait for
 > it to end and then close the handle and thread, I need to just launch it and
 > then forget about it.

Just remove WaitForSingleObject() and close the handles right after a 
successful call to CreateProcess().

if( CreateProcess(...) ) {
     CloseHandle( pi.hProcess );
     CloseHandle( pi.hThread );
}

Kind regards,
Ted Lyngmo

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