Processes

[maarten van damme]

You can use the win32 bindings to get a list of all running processes.
To kill one, follow :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10807553/stop-external-program-from-c-code


And instead of "system" use "shell"
2013/1/14 1100110 <0b1100110 at gmail.com>:
> On 01/13/2013 08:01 AM, Tomas wrote:
>>
>> Hey, guys.
>>
>> I need to get all running processes list, and kill one. (example: Find
>> all processes and if skype.exe is running, kill it.)
>
>
> ---
> import std.stdio;
> import std.process;
>
> //assuming we want to kill "htop"
> void main() {
>     killProcess("htop");
> }
>
> void killProcess(string n){
>     version(linux) {
>         auto processNumber = shell("pgrep "~ n);
>         writeln(n ~" process number is: "~processNumber);
>
>         shell("kill "~ processNumber);
>         writeln(n ~" has been killed.");
>     }
>
>     version(Windows) {// I don't know windows enough, your turn.
>
>     }
> }
> ---
>
> I assume it would be similar on Windows, since you will need to go through
> the OS in any case, but this is a simple, hastily written example since no
> one else has answered.