I would like to ask how can I stop a process programmatically using C++?
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17You could build a robot that unplugs power cables; that would be relatively platform independent. – James McNellis Oct 01 '10 at 20:07
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@Pavel: It depends on how you write the requirements. :-) – James McNellis Oct 01 '10 at 20:20
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@James McNellis: tell the OP how to build the robot in C++. – Donotalo Oct 01 '10 at 20:23
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Depends what you mean by stop. Do you mean STOP or HALT these seem like law enforcement activities so @James robot should suffice, while if you mean KILL this is more militaristic and thus @pavel rocket launcher would do the trick. – Martin York Oct 01 '10 at 20:50
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2@Pavel even this is not enough. Haven't you see Terminator? – ruslik Oct 01 '10 at 20:51
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This is a platform dependent question. Could you specify the platform you're worknig on?
For Windows you can use TerminateProcess
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It's platform-dependent. On Unix you'd send the process a signal with the kill(2).
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Use exit function to terminate the calling process. If you want to terminate the process without executing destructors for objects of automatic or static storage duration you could use abort function.
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@Kyrill - I sure hope OP means a _different_ process, otherwise this must be a dup – Steve Townsend Oct 01 '10 at 20:19
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@Steve, I'll delete my answer when OP will reveal this possible misunderstanding. It is not clear from the question. – Kirill V. Lyadvinsky Oct 01 '10 at 20:22
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#include <windows.h>
int main()
{
system("taskkill /f /im process.exe");
// replace process.exe with the name of process you want to stop/kill
// /f is used to forcefully terminate the process
// /im is used for imagename or in simple word it's like wildcard
return 0;
}
Or you can go to How to kill processes by name? (Win32 API)
