From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@...>
Date: 2005-04-27T14:03:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting and stopping a child process in Windows

Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> What is the best / most reliable / most obvious way to start and kill
> a child process under Windows? This child process happens to be a Webrick 
> application, and I don't
> care about being platform-dependent in this case.

You might use CreateProcess from Win32api.
The PID is returned in the last parameter, the process_information 
structure.
Then use that PID in calling OpenProcess to get the Handle to use
when calling TerminateProcess.

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J Lambert