I create a process with Windows API CreateProcess(). Process Id returned by this function is not there in task manager. When I try to terminate this process using TerminateProcess(). GetLastError() returns 5. Using chrome as sample browser.
My goal is to create a browser process and then shut down the browser after authentication.
My sample code is like this:
int main()
{
wstring app{L"C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"};
PROCESS_INFORMATION browserProcessInfo;
STARTUPINFO browserStartupInfo;
ZeroMemory(&browserStartupInfo, sizeof(browserStartupInfo));
ZeroMemory(&browserProcessInfo, sizeof(browserProcessInfo));
wstring cmdline;
cmdline = app + wstring{ { L" --new-windows" } };
bool bProcessCreated = CreateProcess(NULL,(LPWSTR) (cmdline.c_str()), NULL, NULL, TRUE, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS , NULL, NULL, &browserStartupInfo, &browserProcessInfo);
auto handle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_TERMINATE, FALSE, browserProcessInfo.dwProcessId);
auto terminateStatus = TerminateProcess(handle, 1);
auto errorNumber = GetLastError();
CloseHandle(browserProcessInfo.hProcess);
CloseHandle(browserProcessInfo.hThread);
}
It's not a problem with CreateProcess
. chrome
simply exits pretty much immediately after starting up if Chrome is already running. It simply tells the existing process to create a new window and exits.