Wait till process is no longer running OR until timeout has passed, whichever happens first

Question

I want to kill a process running on the machine using taskkill if they're still running after X seconds (a windows service was stopped but it takes time for processes to dissapear) What's the most correct way to accomplish the above in C# (.net 2.0 or possibly 3.0)?

I've utility method for verifying whether a process is still running, given the process name (using Process.GetProcesses()). (As the process is not spawned by my code, I can't use WaitTillExit to know when it's no longer running)

PS: the process runs on a remote machine

Answer 1

In fact, you can use Process.WaitForExit().

Simply get the process to wait for via

Process p = Process.GetProcessById(iYourID);

And then call

if(!p.WaitForExit(iYourInterval))
{ 
    p.Kill();
}

You can also get processes via their name by

Process.GetProcessesByName(strYourProcessName);

Answer 2

You could call Process.WaitForExit, passing the appropriate timeout. This way you won't need to use your own check to see whether the process is still running.

Answer 3

Process p = ...

bool exited = p.WaitForExit(10000); // 10 seconds timeout