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Kill child process when console terminates
process.Start();
ProcessKiller.KillWhenConsoleTerminates(process);
RunAndWait(process);
public static class ProcessKiller
{
[DllImport("Kernel32")]
private static extern bool SetConsoleCtrlHandler(EventHandler handler, bool add);
private delegate bool EventHandler(CtrlType sig);
private enum CtrlType {
CTRL_C_EVENT = 0,
CTRL_BREAK_EVENT = 1,
CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT = 2,
CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT = 5,
CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT = 6
}
public static void KillWhenConsoleTerminates(Process process)
{
SetConsoleCtrlHandler(ctrlType => {process.Kill(); return false;}, true );
}
}
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