Pause a process in C#

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Hi,

I'm using the System.Diagnostics.Process class in C#.
Is it possible to pause a process (not my process, but another) and then continue it with this class or with another class?
If possible, how to do that?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 21-Oct-12 4:08am

Thomas Daniels

Updated 21-Oct-12 4:40am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-21T04:29:00

Solution 1

For obvious reasons, you can't resume a suspended process from within the process itself...

The recommended way would be to use a Mutex: Mutex.WaitOne[^] - this includes a version that will "wake up" after a specified number of milliseconds.

Posted 21-Oct-12 4:29am

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Thomas Daniels 21-Oct-12 10:33am

I think your solution is to suspend your own process.
But I need to suspend/continue another process, not mine.

OriginalGriff 21-Oct-12 10:38am

:laugh: Then you should ask that!
Have a look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71257/suspend-process-in-c-sharp
It uses Kernel32 to do just that.

Thomas Daniels 21-Oct-12 10:40am

Thanks!
I thought I asked to suspend another process with my text "pause a process".
A very good solution, +5!