I have a Qt based updater application that needs to replace a running process with the new file. On Windows, the updater is failing when the process is running.
Is there a way that I can find a process by name e.g, Firefox.exe and kill it using Qt?
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possible duplicate of [how to find the running process and kill the process in QT?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4538967/how-to-find-the-running-process-and-kill-the-process-in-qt) – karlphillip Apr 19 '12 at 16:32
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[Is there a way to list current processes using Qt on windows?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/833113/is-there-a-way-to-list-current-processes-using-qt-on-windows) – karlphillip Apr 19 '12 at 16:34
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You can call system like this: taskkill /f /im firefox.exe
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-1 This approach doesn't use Qt, therefore is not a cross-platform solution. – karlphillip Apr 19 '12 at 16:33
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Qt is cross-platform. I don't know any feature that Qt provides that only exists on Windows. Can you remember any? – karlphillip Apr 19 '12 at 17:56
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I read question again and you are right - no way to kill process by Qt. – Alexey Apr 20 '12 at 05:16
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There's no API to do this in Qt, which means the only way to do it is using platform specific code.
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