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What do you mean by 'inactive'? Shut down?<br />
Anyway, IIRC, you can use the pid's with OpenProcess and see if you get a valid handle.
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What do you mean by 'inactive'? Shut down?
Anyway, IIRC, you can use the pid's with OpenProcess and see if you get a valid handle.

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Another issue that perhaps needs to be considered when having a list of saved PID's like this is that Windows may very well reuse a PID of a process that just have been shut down for a new process...
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Another issue that perhaps needs to be considered when having a list of saved PID's like this is that Windows may very well reuse a PID of a process that just have been shut down for a new process...

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I have a list of PIDs in a flat file and have to find out if any of those are inactive .<br />
Any pointers on how to do this?<br />
Platform: Windows NT<br />
This info has to be read and processed within a MFC GUI.<br />
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Thanks.
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I have a list of PIDs in a flat file and have to find out if any of those are inactive .
Any pointers on how to do this?
Platform: Windows NT
This info has to be read and processed within a MFC GUI.

Thanks.

Process status with given pid

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