How to know when calling app exited/stopped

[Rostfrei]

I have a little application called updater.exe. This updater gets called by the other application called someapp.exe. Updater receives three arguments 1. calling application (full path of someapp.exe) 2. location of the installer file 3. installing destination folder So when someapp.exe calls updater.exe it immediately exits (it will get overwritten). Because this exiting process isn't instant, updater should check if it's still "alive". How can I do this? Can I get some handle from 1st argument and check if application is still running? Best regards,

Rostfrei

[Paresh Chitte]

Will this[^] helpful ? Regards, Paresh.

[jhwurmbach]

You could use a kernel object, as describes by Christian Graus here[^].

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[Stephen Hewitt]

Have the calling process pass a HANDLE to itself to the callee. Make sure this HANDLE is inheritable and then when you call CreateProcess to create the callee ensure the bInheritHandles argument is set to TRUE. The callee can then call WaitForSingleObject passing in this HANDLE to wait until the caller has exited.

Steve