I explained this to you yesterday! Is there something you didn't understand?
It seems so. I understood from your explanation (which was about killing a process), that after sending the kill signal, the process still resides in the process table and I can't expect that it disappears immediately. So far no problems.

Here we have a different situation, in that it is not about killing a process: I am going to implement a busy wait for a process to end by itself. When the process finishes, I understand that Windows might still take some time to remove the process from the process table, after it is ended - maybe a few seconds, but certainly not minutes, isn't it? So I thought that sooner or later, after sending a kill 0, the process must have disappeared and kill should return 0 (indicating that "it reaches zero processes").

Maybe I really misunderstood what you explained to me yesterday - could you please point out where my understanding is wrong?

-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Re^2: Testing whether a process has finished by rovf
in thread Testing whether a process has finished by rovf

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