Re: to Find whether the application is alive or dead
"Alex Blekhman" <tkfx.REMOVE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" wrote:
You can pass A's process ID as a command line parameter to B.exe. Inside
A process call GetProcessId() function to get A's process ID.
Inside B process call OpenProcess() function in order to obtain a handle
to process A. Then you can use this handle with WaitForSingleObject.
DO NOT do this! There's a race condition, process A could exit before
process B calls OpenProcess. Testing for failure of OpenProcess is not
enough because OpenProcess could return a different process than process
A when this happens.
thanks for pointing this out. Yes, I thought it should be quite self
evident that process A must stay alive with that arrangement.
Probably more convenient solution will be to duplicate its own handle
within process A (with DuplicateHandle) in order to make it inheritable.
Then just pass handle value to process B via command line.
That's definitely the easiest, but I don't much like creating processes with
inheritance enabled. Who knows what other handles in the process might have
been created inheritable? It's that horrid "action at a distance" behavior
at work.
Alex
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