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Gregor Sattel
Gregor Sattel

Reputation: 400

How to safely kill robocopy process

I have a win32 app and I'm starting a robocopy child process for some file transfers. If I terminate the process using TerminateProcess is there a possibility to end with corrupt files? If so how to avoid this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5473

Answers (1)

Strive Sun
Strive Sun

Reputation: 6299

From TerminateProcess function,

The TerminateProcess function is used to unconditionally cause a process to exit. The state of global data maintained by dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) may be compromised if TerminateProcess is used rather than ExitProcess.

Keep in mind that TerminateProcess does not allow its target to clean up and exit in a valid state.

Try to close the process cleanly, refer the link below,

If the robocopy process is terminated, the file being copied will have a timestamp of (a) 1980-01-01 (b) the same size as the original file.

Then use robocopy to copy files with TimeStamp in command line again.

Refer: How to use Robocopy to copy files with TimeStamp in command line

Upvotes: 1

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