How to kill child process without killing parent process [same process name].

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How to kill only current child process without affecting to parent process of same name in C#.
my parent process and child process have same name 'setup'. Have any idea please share.

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Posted 22-Jun-14 15:03pm

SachinSutar

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[no name] 22-Jun-14 21:06pm

The Process class an ID property that you could use to identify your process. More information might help you get a better answer.

Jafarinejadvazifehkhorani 22-Jun-14 23:29pm

if you provide the code, it is gonna be very helpful

SachinSutar 23-Jun-14 5:49am

I just tried this and it close parent also.

Process[] aProc = Process.GetProcessesByName(processname);
forech((Process proc in aProc)
{
proc.kill();
}

I know this will kill all the process having same name. Want to get parent process from this collection. Or if any other soloution please share.

Thanks

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jun-14 0:19am

I would also ask: why killing any process? Is it your process? A need for killing some process is always a sign of someone's bug or other defect, including wrong design.
—SA

SachinSutar 23-Jun-14 5:45am

Yes. It is my own process. I run multiple process [same parent process with different arguments] inside one parent process on button click & i want to close only child processes without affecting parent.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jun-14 11:41am

Then organize your own process so it would terminate itself properly when it it needed, without a need to kill it...
—SA

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Jafarinejadvazifehkhorani · Answer 1 · 2014-06-23T04:08:00

here is the code

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private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
     {
         Dictionary<int, int> listDictionary = new Dictionary<int, int>();
         Process[] aProc = Process.GetProcessesByName("cmd");

         foreach (Process proc in aProc)
         {
             ManagementObject managementObject = new ManagementObject("win32_process.handle='" + proc.Id + "'");
             managementObject.Get();
             int parentId = Convert.ToInt32(managementObject["ParentProcessId"]);
             listDictionary.Add(proc.Id, parentId);
         }
         foreach (KeyValuePair<int, int> keyValuePair in listDictionary)
         {
             if (!listDictionary.ContainsValue(keyValuePair.Key))
                 Process.GetProcessById(keyValuePair.Key).Kill();
         }
     }

it's gonna kill all the process with 'cmd' name but the ones that are parent for other processes.