CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Ying
Ying

Reputation: 1152

Is it possible for IIS or ASP.NET worker restarts to terminate child processes started by website?

I am using Process.Start to fire-and-forget a long running console application within my ASP.NET website. I'm wondering if there any any circumstances where something will terminate the whole process tree of the worker process and so terminate my console process too. (Apart from reboots/shutdowns of course!)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 181

Answers (1)

Jerry Bullard
Jerry Bullard

Reputation: 6106

Sorry to dodge your question a bit here, but hopefully this will be useful. It should be pretty easy to test your theory merely by cycling the ASP.NET worker process either by touching the web.config or even recycling IIS itself. Either way, however, wrapping your console process in a Windows service or even launching it using Windows' built in scheduler would be far more stable and relatively simple to set up. This way you avoid the whole issue of launching a process from ASP.NET and thereby improve the security of your site to boot.

Upvotes: 1

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