Stuck on GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent in C# with console apps

Question

I\'m having the hardest time trying to get this to work, hoping one of you has done this before.

I have a C# console app that is running a child process which inheri

Answer 1

Not so sure this is a good approach. This only works if the child process is created with the CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP flag for CreateProcess(). The System.Diagnostics.Process class however does not support this.

Consider using the return value from the Main() method. There is already a unique value defined in the Windows SDK for Ctrl+C aborts, STATUS_CONTROL_C_EXIT or 0xC000013A. The parent process can get that return code from the Process.ExitCode property.