how do I terminate a pkexec tprocess?
lazarus / 32-Linux

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Michael Collier · 2015-07-27 11:49

I tried using pkexec within tprocess to execute a program that runs in
an infinite loop, and when I try to terminate the process i.e.
Proc.terminate(-1) it doesn't seem to stop.

If I leave out the pkexec then I can terminate. I'm new to pkexec,
have I missed something? I'm guessing that I don't have enough
privilege to terminate?

I can kill the process from a terminal using sudo killall
<application_name>, so I could use another tprocess object to close my
first tprocess (I guess..), but this is getting messy..??

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Michael Collier · 2015-07-27 12:12

.. this seems to help,

pkexec -u <my_username> <my_sudo_application>

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Basile B. · 2015-07-27 12:36

Try TAsyncProcess. For example if you have the GUI blocked during
execution.
You can try to kill the process in the event OnReadData() or elsewhere
too.