How kill a process with its GPid?

[gege2061]

Hi,

I create process with g_spawn_async_with_pipes. Is it possible to kill it?

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[Tor Lillqvist]

> I create process with g_spawn_async_with_pipes. Is it possible to kill it?

Not in a cross-platform way. On POSIX, a GPid is just a pid, so use
kill(). On Windows, GPid is a HANDLE for the process, so use
TerminateProcess().

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[gege2061]

ok, thanks :)

Have you planned to add this function? It's a part of bug #142591
(g_pid_terminate).

2008/7/2 Tor Lillqvist <tml@...>:
>> I create process with g_spawn_async_with_pipes. Is it possible to kill it?
>
> Not in a cross-platform way. On POSIX, a GPid is just a pid, so use
> kill(). On Windows, GPid is a HANDLE for the process, so use
> TerminateProcess().
>
> --tml
>



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[Tor Lillqvist]

> Have you planned to add this function? It's a part of bug #142591
> (g_pid_terminate).

I don't think killing a (child) process is necessarily something that
can be usefully wrapped cross-platform. TerminateProcess() is a
somewhat abrupt way to kill a process on Windows (you might want to
send the windows of a GUI process WM_CLOSE messages instead, or
whatever), and on POSIX you might want to send some other signal than
SIGKILL (which is what most closely corresponds to
TerminateProcess()).

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