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  • J jiaming

    I use QProcess::start()
    My program needs to open multiple A's, sometimes close A's, and then open A's, and so on.
    If B cannot be shut down, system resources will be exhausted.

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    JonB
    wrote on last edited by JonB
    #5

    @jiaming
    As @Christian-Ehrlicher has said. And as I said earlier, what else would you like us to say? Just because you would like A to shut down B does not mean Qt app has any control over this, or that we can wave magic wand to make it so it does....

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    • JoeCFDJ Offline
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      JoeCFD
      wrote on last edited by JoeCFD
      #6

      Try this
      kill( m_process->pid(), SIGINT );
      before m_process is closed.

      or
      QString cmd = QString( "kill -9 %1" ).arg( m_process->pid() );
      call this
      exec( cmd.toStdString().c_str() );

      std::string exec(const char* cmd) {
      std::array<char, 128> buffer;
      std::string result;
      std::unique_ptr<FILE, decltype(&pclose)> pipe(popen(cmd, "r"), pclose);
      if (!pipe) {
      throw std::runtime_error("popen() failed!");
      }
      while (fgets(buffer.data(), buffer.size(), pipe.get()) != nullptr) {
      result += buffer.data();
      }
      return result;
      }
      from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/478898/how-do-i-execute-a-command-and-get-the-output-of-the-command-within-c-using-po

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      • JoeCFDJ JoeCFD

        Try this
        kill( m_process->pid(), SIGINT );
        before m_process is closed.

        or
        QString cmd = QString( "kill -9 %1" ).arg( m_process->pid() );
        call this
        exec( cmd.toStdString().c_str() );

        std::string exec(const char* cmd) {
        std::array<char, 128> buffer;
        std::string result;
        std::unique_ptr<FILE, decltype(&pclose)> pipe(popen(cmd, "r"), pclose);
        if (!pipe) {
        throw std::runtime_error("popen() failed!");
        }
        while (fgets(buffer.data(), buffer.size(), pipe.get()) != nullptr) {
        result += buffer.data();
        }
        return result;
        }
        from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/478898/how-do-i-execute-a-command-and-get-the-output-of-the-command-within-c-using-po

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        jiaming
        wrote on last edited by
        #7

        @JoeCFD
        No kill function found. Do you need to import any files?

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        • JoeCFDJ JoeCFD

          Try this
          kill( m_process->pid(), SIGINT );
          before m_process is closed.

          or
          QString cmd = QString( "kill -9 %1" ).arg( m_process->pid() );
          call this
          exec( cmd.toStdString().c_str() );

          std::string exec(const char* cmd) {
          std::array<char, 128> buffer;
          std::string result;
          std::unique_ptr<FILE, decltype(&pclose)> pipe(popen(cmd, "r"), pclose);
          if (!pipe) {
          throw std::runtime_error("popen() failed!");
          }
          while (fgets(buffer.data(), buffer.size(), pipe.get()) != nullptr) {
          result += buffer.data();
          }
          return result;
          }
          from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/478898/how-do-i-execute-a-command-and-get-the-output-of-the-command-within-c-using-po

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          Christian Ehrlicher
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          wrote on last edited by
          #8

          @JoeCFD How should this help killing a sub-sub-process? Apart from this the OP is on windows...

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          • J Offline
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            jiaming
            wrote on last edited by
            #9

            My program runs on Ubuntu

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            • Christian EhrlicherC Online
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              Christian Ehrlicher
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              wrote on last edited by
              #10

              Then 'kill' should be available. But it still does not solve your problem. Fix your 'A' program to properly shut down it's spawned processes.

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              • J jiaming

                My program runs on Ubuntu

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                JonB
                wrote on last edited by JonB
                #11

                @jiaming

                My program runs on Ubuntu

                And so? As I & @Christian-Ehrlicher have said, you cannot use this to kill a "sub-sub-process". You don't know the PID of the process you want to kill.

                Can you please take the time to address what @Christian-Ehrlicher wrote earlier:

                Then fix A so it properly shuts down B

                [Under Linux you could try using pkill to kill all B processes, but I really wouldn't recommend it....]

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                • J Offline
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                  jiaming
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #12

                  I forgot to say that if A is opened in a terminal, B will also be closed when using Ctrl+C to close. What I am looking for is a method similar to sending a Ctrl+C signal.

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                  • J jiaming

                    I forgot to say that if A is opened in a terminal, B will also be closed when using Ctrl+C to close. What I am looking for is a method similar to sending a Ctrl+C signal.

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                    JonB
                    wrote on last edited by JonB
                    #13

                    @jiaming
                    Use Linux man 2 kill call: kill(pid_of_A, SIGINT). But I doubt it will work from here.

                    It's nice to see that you ignore every suggestion we make.... Best of luck.

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                      jiaming
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #14

                      The main reason is that I didn't write A and B programs. They have formed a good system. It's troublesome for me to change them. It's better to have a simpler method.

                      I found that PPID of B is 1......

                      I'm sorry for the trouble.

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                      • J jiaming

                        The main reason is that I didn't write A and B programs. They have formed a good system. It's troublesome for me to change them. It's better to have a simpler method.

                        I found that PPID of B is 1......

                        I'm sorry for the trouble.

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                        jsulm
                        Lifetime Qt Champion
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #15

                        @jiaming said in How to close the subroutine of the program started by qprocess?:

                        I found that PPID of B is 1

                        You need PID if you want to kill it...

                        https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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                        • J jiaming

                          The main reason is that I didn't write A and B programs. They have formed a good system. It's troublesome for me to change them. It's better to have a simpler method.

                          I found that PPID of B is 1......

                          I'm sorry for the trouble.

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                          jsulm
                          Lifetime Qt Champion
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #16

                          @jiaming You could try to get PID from B using PID from A, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17743879/how-to-get-child-process-from-parent-process

                          https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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                          • J jiaming

                            The main reason is that I didn't write A and B programs. They have formed a good system. It's troublesome for me to change them. It's better to have a simpler method.

                            I found that PPID of B is 1......

                            I'm sorry for the trouble.

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                            JonB
                            wrote on last edited by JonB
                            #17

                            @jiaming said in How to close the subroutine of the program started by qprocess?:

                            I found that PPID of B is 1......

                            Which is why I said I do not think that sending a SIGINT to the parent (A) will have any effect on B...!

                            A process ID value of 1 indicates that there is no parent process associated with the [...] process."

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                            • J jiaming

                              I forgot to say that if A is opened in a terminal, B will also be closed when using Ctrl+C to close. What I am looking for is a method similar to sending a Ctrl+C signal.

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                              JoeCFD
                              wrote on last edited by JoeCFD
                              #18

                              @jiaming kill( m_process->pid(), SIGINT ); <==this does what you need. You need somehow to find the pid of B.
                              std::string pid_str = exec( "pidof B" ); exec is defined in the post above and "pidof" is a linux command to find process id.
                              if( !pid_str.empty() ) {
                              int pid = std::stoi( pid_str );
                              kill( pid, SIGINT );
                              }

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                              • JoeCFDJ JoeCFD

                                @jiaming kill( m_process->pid(), SIGINT ); <==this does what you need. You need somehow to find the pid of B.
                                std::string pid_str = exec( "pidof B" ); exec is defined in the post above and "pidof" is a linux command to find process id.
                                if( !pid_str.empty() ) {
                                int pid = std::stoi( pid_str );
                                kill( pid, SIGINT );
                                }

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                                JonB
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #19

                                @JoeCFD said in How to close the subroutine of the program started by qprocess?:

                                You need somehow to find the pid of B.

                                But he doesn't know the PID of B.

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                                  JoeCFD
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #20

                                  Be aware that Control + C ( kill( pid, SIGINT ); ) may not kill your process all the time.
                                  exec( "kill -9 pid" ) will be very clean.

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                                  • Kent-DorfmanK Offline
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                                    Kent-Dorfman
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #21

                                    Nothing original to add, but I recommend all participants in this thread read http://morningcoffee.io/killing-a-process-and-all-of-its-descendants.html as he does a fair job explaining the relationships in POSIX environments.

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                                    • Kent-DorfmanK Kent-Dorfman

                                      Nothing original to add, but I recommend all participants in this thread read http://morningcoffee.io/killing-a-process-and-all-of-its-descendants.html as he does a fair job explaining the relationships in POSIX environments.

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                                      JoeCFD
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #22

                                      @Kent-Dorfman thanks for sharing.

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