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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Killing a spawned program
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:29:39 +0100
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:14:44 +0000 (UTC), Richard Lowe wrote:

> How, using Gnat and GtkAda, does one kill a non-Ada program which has been
> spawned from within an Ada program running under Windows 98SE ?

It is not a good idea to kill a process under Windows. Depending on which
DLLs and drivers are used by the process being killed, that might
compromise the operating system state. However, see:

   TerminateProcess

of Win32 API in MSDN.

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