Subj : Re: CreateProcess
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Ed Mulroy [TeamB]
Date : Thu Jun 17 2004 04:34 pm

User programs are not designed to run forever.  They all end.  The
program you launch with a call to CreateProcess should have internal
coding for how it shuts down.

If you want to shut it down prematurely you should start by asking
yourself why you need to do that and why you are launching that
program when you did not want it to do what it is supposed to do.

If you absolutely must shut it down, send a WM_CLOSE message to each
of its top level windows.  TerminateProcess is only for an emergency
shutdown of the program and does not clean up by unloading DLL's and
freeing all resources.  Especially if using an OS from the Windows
95/98/ME tree, failing to unload and free those items can have a bad
effect on the operating system.

ExitProcess is not normally used in programs.  The compiler's startup
code provides it.  You end your program by executing the return
statement in main, OwlMain or WinMain.

..  Ed

> mike wrote in message
> news:40d1eb59@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>   i was reading the documentation on CreateProcess () and it says
the
> preferred way to shutdown a process is to use the ExitProcess ()
rather than
> the TerminateProcess (). i don't understand how this works....
>
> TerminateProcess - this can take in a process handle and ExitProcess
can't
>
> so when i run my executable, i start a 3rd party executable. how do
i
> gracefully exit it? if i call ExitProcess () it will close my
application
> and not the one i started.
>
> The problem i'm seeing is that eventually when i call CreateProcess
it fails
> with an error code of 1813: The specified resource type cannot be
found in
> the image file. ERROR_RESOURCE_TYPE_NOT_FOUND.
>
> is this because the DLL's are in a compromised state?
>
> how can i get around this???

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