I m using VB.NET for a web-application that starts some process using CreateObject, like this: Dim AVObject = CreateObject("avwin.application") After all is done everything get closed down en ...

In Erlang is there any way that a message sender can wait on a response, so it only continues execution once the message has been processed? And I mean something like this: Actor ! DoSomething ...

I have a script vbs wich redirect some data to the stdin of myApp (written in C in Windows). If myApp was already launched before myApp finds the PID of the first myApp session and redirects the input ...

Does anyone know how to get the PID of the top active window and then how to get the properties of the window using the PID? I mean properties like process name, program name, etc. I m using Qt under ...

I start a background process from my shell script, and I would like to kill this process when my script finishes. How to get the PID of this process from my shell script? As far as I can see variable ...

Here s one for ya. Upon a forced quit of the Finder with unsuccessful relaunch, "killall Finder" in terminal returns: "No matching processes belonging to you were found" Oddly enough, the PID for ...

On my ubuntu server I run the following command: python -c import os; os.kill(5555, 0) This is done so that I can see if pid 5555 is running. From my understanding this should raise an OSError if ...

Is there a way to do this purely in a .bat file? The purpose is to launch iexplore.exe, then kill just that instance when it s finished.