Can't kill process when console is enabled

[alav]

Hello,

I'm having problems with killing a deamon exe when it has a console created inside itself. I am using the console for debugging. When there is no console inside the deamon, I use this piece of code in my GUI application and it works fine:

	while(finder.Next(name) == KErrNone) 
	{
		// check if this is our process 
		if(name.FindF(KProcessName) != KErrNotFound) 
		{
			RProcess process;
			if(process.Open(finder, EOwnerProcess) == KErrNone) // Open process
			{
				process.Kill(KErrNone);  // Kill process
				process.Close();
			}
		}
	}

Using this code I can stop the deamon from a GUI application.

Then, I create a console inside the deamon:

LOCAL_D CConsoleBase* console;
[...]
TRAPD(createError, console = Console::NewL(KTextConsoleTitle, TSize(KConsFullScreen,KConsFullScreen)));

And when the console is created I can no longer kill the process, it won't exit...

I suppose I should kill the console in some way first, but how can I do it?

Thanks,
Maciej

[wizard_hu_]

Have you checked if TFindProcess finds anything and if RProcess::Open succeeds?

[ltomuta]

What platform are you working on and why don't you find a nice way of telling the daemon that is time to exit?

[alav]

I think the nice way will be to use the RProperty class - now I do realise it isn't very elegant to kill the deamon, in fact I did realise it earlier, but I thought I wouldn't change that just because of debugging issues.

But it's an interesting issue anyway, isn't it?

@wizard_hu: I didn't actually, but the only thing I change in the deamon code is enabling the console... Would that change anything in the way that I should search for the process?