Stop 3rd Party process upon Process Close/Die

[JohnMC]

Im developing a portable web server for an opensource project call Simple Invoices, im using autoit to start and manage: a UI w/ embedded ie, mysql server, apache web server, etc. Ive run into an issue were if a user force closes my autoit script or if it crashes, all the sub processes remain running.

My question is; what is the best way to handle this? my only idea has been to create a simple helper process, but this seems messy and still with a chance of issues not to mention the idea of portable is a small footprint.

my dream would be to discover some sort of dll call or a special way of executing a process that says x child cant continue to run without y parent.

thanks for any help!

[sleepydvdr]

I don't think this would help in case of the program crashing, but OnAutoItExitRegister might be helpful with the user closing it.

[JohnMC]

I don't think this would help in case of the program crashing, but OnAutoItExitRegister might be helpful with the user closing it.

thanks, ya im using that for normal closes

the script shutdown process is complicated but i dont expect anything special to happen if my script dies, i just want the child processes (3rd party executables) to die with it, all my googleing keeps bringing me back to a helper process to monitor the situation and close everything when needed