[Mono-osx] Monitoring external processes

[Geoff Norton]

Please file a bug on http://bugzilla.novell.com and attach a test case.

-g

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 13:57 -0400, Andrew Coupe wrote:
> Could someone from the dev team comment on this issue as it appears to
> be specific to the Mac runtime?  Process.HasExited works fine on Mono
> 2 for Windows.  Are there any workarounds for detecting the status of
> currently running process?
> 
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> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
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> 
> From:mono-osx-bounces at lists.ximian.com
> [mailto:mono-osx-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coupe
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 12:01 PM
> To: mono-osx at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-osx] Monitoring external processes
> 
> 
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> 
> I forgot to include the error produced by the Mono runtime on the mac.
> 
>  
> 
> mono(333,0xa000ed88) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not
> malloced: 0x1a5898; This could be a double free(), or free() called
> with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment
> variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
> 
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> 
>  
> 
> Hi all
> 
>  
> 
> I need to detect when the user closes a process that my application
> launches.  The following code works fine under .NET and Mono 2.0 on
> Windows but does not work on the Mac OS.  On the mac, the process
> correctly starts the texeditor app.  The problem is that HasExited
> incorrectly returns true immediately even though the window has not
> been closed.
> 
>  
> 
> Dim Progname As String =
> Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.DesktopDirectory)
> + m_PATHDELIMITER + "Myfile.txt"
> 
>         Dim DAWproc As New Process()
> 
>             With DAWproc.StartInfo
> 
>                 .FileName = Progname
> 
>                 .Verb = "Open"
> 
>                 .CreateNoWindow = True
> 
>             End With
> 
>             DAWproc.Start()
> 
>             While Not DAWproc.HasExited 
> 
>             End While
> 
>             MessageBox.Show("App Closed")
> 
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> 
> I’ve already tried using GetProcessbyname but, according to other
> threads on this forum,  it appears that this function is not
> functioning correctly under Mono either.  Can anyone suggest how I can
> accomplish this seemingly simple task in a reliable way that works on
> both Mac and Windows?
> 
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> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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> 
> 
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