Is there any attribute of a process that shows its lifetime (since it was loaded into memory)
and what are the WINAPI used to extract this information?
I want to be able to measure the lifetime of any process in the system
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Is there any attribute of a process that shows its lifetime (since it was loaded into memory)
and what are the WINAPI used to extract this information?
I want to be able to measure the lifetime of any process in the system
I think you’re after the
GetProcessTimesfunction. You provide a handle to a process (you may need to have the appropriate security attributes), and also provide several pointers toFILETIMEstructs, which you can translate intoSYSTEMTIMEwithFileTimeToSystemTime. One of theFILETIMEobjects refers to the process’s creation time, which is probably the closest you will get to when the executable was loaded into memory.