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Thanks that was what I was thinking, but wanted to make sure if that is the right thing to do. Does it matter if I kill the myprocess onStop instead of onStart.<br />
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Thank You.
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Thanks that was what I was thinking, but wanted to make sure if that is the right thing to do. Does it matter if I kill the myprocess onStop instead of onStart.

Thank You.

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It doesn't matter, but make sure you kill the process before you start the new process.
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It doesn't matter, but make sure you kill the process before you start the new process.

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I have created a windows service which fires another process (myprocess.exe) every 10 minutes, which creates files, prints them and exits. Sometimes when someone restarts the service while myprocess is still running, it does not kill the myprocess in the memory. The service starts another myprocess.exe, and now I see two instances of myprocess.exe in the task manager. Since both are trying to write to the same file, they clash and I get error.<br />
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How do I make my service kill myprocess.exe, if it is running when the service gets restarted.<br />
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Thanks.<br />

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I have created a windows service which fires another process (myprocess.exe) every 10 minutes, which creates files, prints them and exits. Sometimes when someone restarts the service while myprocess is still running, it does not kill the myprocess in the memory. The service starts another myprocess.exe, and now I see two instances of myprocess.exe in the task manager. Since both are trying to write to the same file, they clash and I get error.

How do I make my service kill myprocess.exe, if it is running when the service gets restarted.

Thanks.


kill child process on restart of my windows  service

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