Create a process and wait for it to exit

After you have typed a command in the command line, you generally obtain the console after the command is executed. This effect also exists in the 360 software Manager (during software upgrade ). To achieve this, you generally need to create a process and wait for it to exit. The key to implementing this function is the createprocessw and waitforsingleobject functions. Such code is also available online. The following is a piece of code in an open-source project called eraser, which also contains some useful Code. For details, refer:

Http://eraser.heidi.ie/trac/browser/trunk/eraser6/Installer/Bootstrapper/Bootstrapper.cpp? REV = 1278

 

Int createprocessandwait (const STD: wstring & CommandLine, const STD: wstring & appname) <br/> {<br/> // get a mutable version of the command line <br/> wchar_t * cmdline = new wchar_t [CommandLine. length () + 1]; <br/> wcscpy_s (CommandLine, CommandLine. length () + 1, CommandLine. c_str (); <br/> // launch the process <br/> startupinfow startupinfo; <br/> process_information pinfo; <br/>: zeromemory (& startupin Fo, sizeof (startupinfo); <br/>: zeromemory (& pinfo, sizeof (pinfo); <br/> If (! Createprocessw (null, cmdline, null, null, false, 0, null, null, & startupinfo, <br/> & pinfo )) <br/> {<br/> Delete [] response line; <br/> throw l "error while executing" + appname + L ":" + geterrormessage (getlasterror ()); <br/>}< br/> Delete [] using line; <br/> // OK the process was created, wait for it to terminate. <br/> DWORD lastwait = 0; <br/> while (lastwait = waitforsingleobject (pinfo. hprocess, 50 )) = Wait_timeout) <br/> application: Get (). yield (); <br/> If (lastwait = wait_abandoned) <br/> throw STD: wstring (L "the condition waiting on the termination of. net installer was abandoned. "); <br/> // get the exit code <br/> DWORD exitcode = 0; <br/> If (! Getexitcodeprocess (pinfo. hprocess, & exitcode) <br/> throw geterrormessage (getlasterror (); <br/> // clean up <br/> closehandle (pinfo. hprocess); <br/> closehandle (pinfo. hthread); <br/> // return the exit code. <br/> return exitcode; <br/>} 

 

The following code creates a process in chrome and obtains the output:

Bool getappoutput (const CommandLine & CL, STD: string * output) {<br/> handle out_read = NULL; <br/> handle out_write = NULL; <br/> security_attributes sa_attr; <br/> // set the binherithandle flag so pipe handles are inherited. <br/> sa_attr.nlength = sizeof (security_attributes); <br/> sa_attr.binherithandle = true; <br/> outputs = NULL; <br/> // create the pipe for the child P Rocess's stdout. <br/> If (! Createpipe (& out_read, & out_write, & sa_attr, 0) {<br/> notreached () <"failed to create pipe"; <br/> return false; <br/>}< br/> // ensure we don't leak the handles. <br/> win: scopedhandle scoped_out_read (out_read); <br/> win: scopedhandle scoped_out_write (out_write ); <br/> // ensure the read handle to the pipe for stdout is not inherited. <br/> If (! Sethandleinformation (out_read, handle_flag_inherit, 0) {<br/> notreached () <"failed to disabled pipe inheritance"; <br/> return false; <br/>}< br/> // now create the child process <br/> process_information proc_info = {0}; <br/> startupinfo start_info = {0 }; <br/> start_info.cb = sizeof (startupinfo); <br/> start_info.hstdoutput = out_write; <br/> // keep the normal stdin and stderr. <br/> Response = getstdhandle (std_input_handle); <br/> response = getstdhandle (std_error_handle); <br/> start_info.dwflags | = startf_usestdhandles; <br/> // create the child process. <br/> If (! CreateProcess (null, <br/> const_cast <wchar_t *> (Cl. command_line_string (). c_str (), <br/> null, null, <br/> true, // handles are inherited. <br/> 0, null, null, & start_info, & proc_info) {<br/> notreached () <"failed to start process "; <br/> return false; <br/>}< br/> // we don't need the thread handle, close it now. <br/> closehandle (proc_info.hthread); <br/> // close our writing end of pipe now. Otherwise later read wocould not be able <br/> // to detect end of Child's output. <br/> scoped_out_write.close (); <br/> // read output from the child process's pipe for stdout <br/> const int kbuffersize = 1024; <br/> char buffer [kbuffersize]; <br/> for (;) {<br/> DWORD bytes_read = 0; <br/> bool success = readfile (out_read, buffer, kbuffersize, & bytes_read, null); <br/> If (! Success | bytes_read = 0) <br/> break; <br/> output-> append (buffer, bytes_read ); <br/>}< br/> // Let's wait for the process to finish. <br/> waitforsingleobject (proc_info.hprocess, infinite); <br/> closehandle (proc_info.hprocess); <br/> return true; <br/>}< br/>