From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-05-24T23:20:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Killing a Process started with Kernel.system

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> On May 23, 2005, at 11:40 PM, Martin aus Chemnitz wrote:
>> Under Windows, I want to start an external program and kill it on
>> exitting my Ruby script.
>>
>> begin
>>   $t = Thread.new { system("everlasting") }
>>   ...
>> ensure
>>   $t.kill
>> end
>>
>> does not stop the everlasting program, it stops $t, not its child
>> processes. Such a command is urgently needed!
>
> Here's a way to kill any process using Win32OLE:
>
> require 'win32ole'
>
> class WIN32OLE
>     def to_a
>         a = []; self.each{ |p| a<<p }; a
>     end
> end
>
> # Find the process for the player
> mgmt = WIN32OLE.connect('winmgmts:\\\\.')
> process = mgmt.InstancesOf("win32_process").to_a.find{ |proc|
> proc.name =~ /myapp.exe/ }
> process.Terminate

so no way by pid?

-a
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