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killing a process

Posted by tom c on November 15, 2001 at 5:00 AM

Hi,
looks like everyone has the same problem. let me know if anyone of you know how to kill it.
regards
tom

> Hi Anand,

> I would like know how to kill the exe process running which is started by process.runtime.exec. The process.runtime.destroy method does dismantle the process object, but the subprocess is still running. I have check this by putting the subprocess in contineous while loop. Please advice.

> Thanks in advance,

> Alik

>
> > Hi Anand,
> > Could you tell me if you find a way to kill a process in Java ?
> > Please, let me know. Thanks a lot.
> > Best Regards,
> > Franck.

> > > I wanted to know whether a process (any .exe file)is running and if it does, then I would like to destroy it. I know how to start a process using the Runtime.getRuntime.exec("someexe.exe"). But how do I find out if "someexe.exe" is running and then kill/destroy it. Thanks in advance.

> > > Anand






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