Process does not exists

[desertcolt]

I am writing a code to copy a file from source to destination . I am grabing the PID of process . The following code will work if ProcessExists .

How if I want that "if process does not exists" and I want to do copy in that scenario without using ELSE condition,

If (ProcessExists($pid)) Then

$pid = Run($CPY & " " & $SRC & " " & $DST)

EndIf

[w0uter]

if NOT processExist ?

[desertcolt]

working ) , thanks

[ElwoodB]

Hum, according to the documentation, ProcessExists($pid) should not work as this function expects a process name and not a PID.

Or is the documentation wrong?

[Jos]

Why post a  not really related question in a 16 years old thread?

...  and why not first open the helpfile to check as you would have found that either will work?

 

[ElwoodB]

1 hour ago, Jos said:

Why post a  not really related question in a 16 years old thread?

...  and why not first open the helpfile to check as you would have found that either will work?

 

 

1) because it's still wrong from my point of view.

2)

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Parameters

process

The name or PID of the process to check.

Source : https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/ProcessExists.htm

3) It's nowhere mentioned that using the PID as as argument works.

4) in my very small test, it doesn't work

4 good reasons to update this thread, IMO.

[Jos]

2 minutes ago, ElwoodB said:

3) It's nowhere mentioned that using the PID as as argument works.

Seriously?  You sure you read the whole line in the right hand box?  

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The name or PID of the process to check

 

[ElwoodB]

4 minutes ago, Jos said:

Seriously?  You sure you read the whole line in the right hand box?  

 

Arghh, I read that many times. Sorry 😞

As I have a problem in my code (which seems related to passing arguments to a Func), I thought the manual could be wrong. I need to sleep. 🙂

Thanks for highlithing the "or".

[Jos]

Check whether the PID you are checking is running at the same Credentials level as your script as it might be you need Adminlevel access for it to check.  

[ElwoodB]

Thanks for your time, Jos.

I was Run-ing "mstsc.exe" and I found out that it spawns a new process immediately so the new process had a new PID and ProcessExists() could not find it obviously.
So I had to rely on WinWait() to catch the window opened by Mstsc.

So in the end I was fooled by MS, again 😛