Given a process or thread ID, how to write a C++ function to check if it is alive or not. I’d like to implement this on both Windows and Linux.
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Given a process or thread ID, how to write a C++ function to check if it is alive or not. I’d like to implement this on both Windows and Linux.
If you’re not willing to add an extra library dependency to your project, you could wrap system-specific code using pre-processor directives (e.g:
#ifdef _WIN32).Windows
The GetExitCode* functions return
STILL_ACTIVEif they succeed and the process or thread still exists.Linux