[lldb-dev] Process spawning and shutdown

[Greg Clayton]

So you can get the exit status of a process using

BOOL WINAPI GetExitCodeProcess(_In_ HANDLE hProcess, _Out_  LPDWORD lpExitCode);

Is there a way to wait for the process to exit without polling? Or do you have to keep calling GetExitCodeProcess() until STILL_ACTIVE is not returned? I am guessing you can wait on the hProcess handle somehow?

Anyway, it seems like we want the following when launching processes:

1 - a way to wait for a process to finish with an optional timeout (which defaults to infinite)
2 - a way to say, no need to wait for the process to finish

For 1, we do what we are currently doing. The process monitor callback for windows will need to wait for the process to exit, then call GetExitCodeProcess() when done and return the value. On unix machines, we will reap the process and return the exit status.

For 2, windows doesn't need to do anything, but we still need to reap the process on unix to avoid zombies.

Not sure if I missed any scenarios?

Greg


> On Sep 22, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, but closing the handle is semantically a different operation than reaping a process.  You can close a handle to a process while the process is still running and it doesn't affect anything except that it frees up space in your process's handle table.  You can also not close a handle, and if the process exits nothing bad will come of it.  So closing the handle is more tied to the lifetime of the instantiated HostProcess , and independent of the actual process running on ths system.
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> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Matthew Gardiner <mg11 at csr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 00:27 -0700, Zachary Turner wrote:
> 
> > I know Join isn't really the right word, but there's no concept of
> > reaping a process on Windows.
> 
> However, on Windows, isn't there still a requirement to CloseHandle that
> handles returned by CreateProcess?
> 
> Matt
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