[wix-devs] util:CloseApplication and multiple instances...

[Hoover, Jacob]

I am thinking just a @Directory, so that if I support multiple flavors of my application I can only close the ones that really need closing.

I could see a similar benefit for any application that can be hosted in say, Tomcat where the exe names don't change but can be installed per application.

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From: Bob Arnson [mailto:bob at firegiant.com] 
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Subject: RE: util:CloseApplication and multiple instances...

Looks awkward but +1.

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Subject: [wix-devs] util:CloseApplication and multiple instances...

Random thought after a week of being fat and happy...

The current behavior of util:CloseApplication only keys off of the process name.  Would anyone be at all interested in an addition to the current behavior of also specifying a directory that the exe must be located in?

It doesn't look like it would be too hard to tweak the existing behavior, with ProcFindAllIdsFromExeName in proc2util.h and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/tlhelp32/ns-tlhelp32-processentry32w .

Thanks,
Jacob

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