TerminateProcess doesn't give it a chance to exit normally
and do any cleanup that would happen if it exited itself.
It may not have been able to flush its file buffers, etc.
Does the executable have any way to signal it to exit ?
Roger
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> Aweseome! Many many thanks Roger ! You've made my day.
>
> The last thing that you may be able to help with...
> I'm using
> win32api.TerminateProcess(hProcess,3)
> to kill this process if it gets outta hand...
> but when i do so.. it seems that the stdout/stderr don't capture the
> output.
>
> here's my last chunk of code.
> again.. thank you so much.
>
> hProcess, hThread, dwProcessId, dwThreadId =
> win32process.CreateProcess \
> ( None, self.RENDER_STRING, sa, sa, 1,
> win32con.NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, None, None, startInfo)
>
> while self.exitCode == 259:
> if self.stop:
> print "kill da process"
> win32api.TerminateProcess(hProcess,3)
>
> self.exitCode = win32process.GetExitCodeProcess(hProcess)
> time.sleep(2)
>
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