darash@hotmail.com (darash) wrote in message news:...
> Folks,
>
> I want to spawn an executable (the path is actually a shortcut to the
> exe) from my program (a console application), and there seems to be no
> way of doing that using _spawnl() or CreateProcess(). Both return
> error code 2 (File not found).
>
> If i use ShellExecute to launch the exe, it does the job fairly well,
> but the problem is, it returns HINSTANCE, and i can not use this to
> kill the process (i tried TerminateProcess() but it failed; then i
> tried using OpenProcess() to get the handle using this HINSTANCE, but
> even that failed)
>
> All i want to do is launch a process (using shortcut to the actual
> file) and then after some time kill it, but this obviously simple
> thing has wasted many hours.
>
> Is there a way to do it folks?
>
> /S
>
> P.S. I am not a member of this groups, i'd appreciate it if you Cc the
> replies to me.

You can find how Apache Handle the CreateProcess() Win32 API here:

http://www.slink-software.com/W/SrcD....28.sdoc/N_109

Here's the code for TerminateProcess().

http://www.slink-software.com/W/SrcD....28.sdoc/N_110

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The "source" is out there.