Kill the process if it's not the child of another one

[evgeny9]

I'm testing an application, launching it from my script (so that the application process becomes the child of my script process). Sometimes, the launched application can download an update from the internet, after which it updates and restarts, but of course this time not under my script but on its own. I should detect such situations, kill the separate app process, and restart it under my script again. In help I couldn't find a Process* function dealing with process parents/children. How can I do it?

Thank you in advance.

Edited June 15, 2012 by evgeny9

[JLogan3o13]

Hi, evgeny9, welcome to the forum. was suggested recently to resolve a problem similar to the one you're having; in the discussion, UEZ uses the WinAPI UDF to track child processes. You may find it helpful.

[evgeny9]

JLogan3o13, thank you very much for your answer! I couldn't use "_WinAPI_EnumChildProcess" sub on the page you pointed out, but it lead me to which describes "_ProcessGetParent" - a sub that worked really good for me. Edited June 18, 2012 by evgeny9