I need to kill process and start the same process after some timespan in C#

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I have small task, I need to kill process and start the same process after some timespan
I have code like below

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var procName = Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName;
                   Thread.Sleep(30000);
                   Process.GetProcessById(Process.GetCurrentProcess().Id).Kill();
                   Process.GetProcessById(Process.GetCurrentProcess().Id).WaitForExit();
                   Thread.Sleep(30000);
                   Process.Start(procName);

Process is not able to start after I kill it.

please help me.

Thanks,
-RG

Posted 3-Mar-14 20:33pm

Ramug10

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ErBhati 4-Mar-14 2:35am

I think u use procees.resume();

[no name] 4-Mar-14 2:37am

So you want to start it after what timespan - 3 days? A Lazarus process. You are serious I assume.
Read this and think about what you are asking http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.kill(v=vs.110).aspx.

Ramug10 4-Mar-14 2:40am

after 2 min

[no name] 4-Mar-14 2:42am

It's dead and gone.

Ramug10 4-Mar-14 2:45am

how to resume it again.

[no name] 4-Mar-14 2:47am

Prayer.

Ramug10 4-Mar-14 2:50am

I did not get you.

Ramug10 4-Mar-14 2:40am

I did not find resume() in process how to use it

Krunal Rohit 4-Mar-14 2:44am

I don't think that once the process is killed, you get the same process Id again.

-KR

Ramug10 4-Mar-14 2:46am

after I kill the process how to get the same process id?

Krunal Rohit 4-Mar-14 2:48am

That is totally managed by OS, and you can't get the same process id again and again for newly created process.
-KR

dan!sh 4-Mar-14 3:31am

This code looks a little weird to me. Looks like a process is trying to kill itself and spring back to life again! Is that what you are trying to do?

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Bernhard Hiller · Answer 1 · 2014-03-03T22:49:00

We have a similar task: at startup, the program looks for updates, and if the executable proper needs to be updated, that file is locked of course when it is running...
So we use an extra application (our Updater) which is started with a few arguments (including the path of the current executable), the original program exits (Application.Exit), the Updater performs the update after a short waiting period, and after that starts the original application again (it received the path as an argument, thus knows which executable to call).
That's the point here: you need a "helper" application like our Updater.