Thread: Terminate a process

Hi

I start a console process like dir with ShellExecute function. Is there any way to stop this process from my program the time I want ? ( it might be in the middle of execution of the dir command or in the end of execution of dir command )

Thanks

ShellExecute return a HINSTANCE handle, which I don't know how to operate in order to terminate the process...

Like you said, you want to create a process:
Use the CreateProcess funtion, and after calling the function, you can use the hProcess handle in the PROCESS_INFORMATION structure with TerminateProcess function.
This should work, only for processes. For command lines like dir, this doesn't work.

Code:

HANDLE proc;

BOOL Run(char *exe){
	STARTUPINFO inf;
	PROCESS_INFORMATION procinf;

	ZeroMemory(&inf, sizeof(STARTUPINFO));
	inf.cb=sizeof(STARTUPINFO);
	ZeroMemory(&procinf, sizeof(PROCESS_INFORMATION));

	BOOL res = CreateProcess(exe,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, &inf, &procinf);
	proc = procinf.hProcess;
	return res;
}

Calling ShellExecuteEx() will give you a handle to the process. You can then use this handle to call TerminateProcess().

I am pretty sure TerminateProcess() kills with extreme prejudice, no shutdown time for dir.

Yep, but I think that was the point. He wanted to be able to terminate a process while it was in the middle of doing something.