stopping a running program

[hsn]

hello everyone i am creating a system full of programs here and there.
think about it like this there is a big program and there are mini programs running.
how can i through the big program stop one of the mini programs when i don't need it.
i am using C++
thanks alot

regards
hsn

[gpraghuram]

hello everyone i am creating a system full of programs here and there.
think about it like this there is a big program and there are mini programs running.
how can i through the big program stop one of the mini programs when i don't need it.
i am using C++
thanks alot

regards
hsn

You can use kill -9 <pid> with system command to do the same.

Raghuram

[hsn]

You can use kill -9 <pid> with system command to do the same.

Raghuram

how can i get the process ID
and is this for windows

[mmk]

how can i get the process ID
and is this for windows

You can get PID by typing $ps -ef in your linux terminal. Which shows the processors list which are currently running. Second column in the displayed table is PID. Just grep the processes pid you want to kill and kill it as stated by Raghu.

[mmk]

Sorry in above mentioned answer, $ps -ef is linux command to display snapshot of current processes not processor.

[Banfa]

how can i get the process ID
and is this for windows

Presumably your big process create the mini-processes?

If so then when you call CreateProcess part of the returned data is the process id which can be used with TerminateProces s.

However TerminateProces s is not a recommended function call for normal operation it would be better if you could signal the mini-processes to terminate themselves gracefully (i.e. release resources) rather than doing so from the big process.

You could uses something like an Event object to do this.