Subj : is this possible?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "mike" <localmotion@hawaii.rr.com>
Date : Sat Apr 17 2004 05:28 pm

Hi,

i was wondering if this was possible...

i have an executable that spawns and monitors the spawned process. if it
takes longer than 30 seconds i kill this process and the main executable
exits. however what i now want to do is this.

if the main executable for some odd, unknown reason goes into a weird state,
i was going to kill it with TerminateProcess (). however i wanted to know if
it is possible to intercept this message in the main executable and then in
turn kill the sub process that i had spawned off.

here's it visually:

mainExe ---> spawnedProcess

if mainExe gets into bad state kill it

killExe ---TerminateProcess () ---> mainExe ---> spawnedProcess
                                                          * -- intercept
this message and kill spawned process before closing


aloha,
mike

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