Windows® via C/C++, Fifth Edition

Chapter 5. Jobs

In this chapter:

Placing Restrictions on a Job’s Processes

Placing a Process in a Job

Terminating All Processes in a Job

Job Notifications

The Job Lab Sample Application

You often need to treat a group of processes as a single entity. For example, when you tell Microsoft Visual Studio to build a C++ project, it spawns Cl.exe, which might have to spawn additional processes (such as the individual passes of the compiler). But if the user wants to prematurely stop the build, Visual Studio must somehow be able to terminate Cl.exe and all its child processes. Solving this simple (and common) problem in Microsoft Windows has been notoriously difficult because Windows doesn’t maintain a parent/child relationship between processes. In particular, ...