Method and device for monitoring the creation and destruction of child processes within an application executing in a computer system
CA 2373055 A1 · Owner: Decker, F. J. · Inventors: Decker, F. J.
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A method and a virtual device driver (400) for monitoring the creation and destruction of child processes (445, 450 465) for threads within an , application executing in a computer system controlled by an operating system (405), such as Windows. A list is provided (455) for storing existing child process database structures corresponding to child processes existing within the executing application (410). The list is checked periodically. If when , checked, the list has no entries it is safe to assume that the existing child process and, possibly, related grandchild processes have exited and execution , of the application is complete. Other applications in a series of applications, for …
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