Hi viki

I dont know how it worked in your case but its not supposed to work and i've
checked it too. It wont work coz the Waitforsingleobject would also return
as soon as the process created is finished. and when we run the process
setup.exe, this setup.exe script asks the windows installer service to run
the actull installer and it exits itself thus breaking the
waitforsingleobject lock too. So it would not work for MSDE installer from
C++ code. Anyway thanx for your help. :)

Still waiting for a solution..

Regards

Usman Jamil
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Hi Usman,
Try this code: here WaitForSingleObject( ) waits till your process gets
completed. I used the same for installing MSDE through my setup launcher.
Cheers
Piyush

int ExecCmd(char * pszCmd )
{
BOOL bReturnVal = false ;
STARTUPINFO si ;
DWORD dwExitCode ;
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES saProcess, saThread ;
PROCESS_INFORMATION process_info ;
ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(si)) ;
si.cb = sizeof(si) ;
saProcess.nLength = sizeof(saProcess) ;
saProcess.lpSecurityDescriptor = NULL ;
saProcess.bInheritHandle = TRUE ;
saThread.nLength = sizeof(saThread) ;
saThread.lpSecurityDescriptor = NULL ;
saThread.bInheritHandle = FALSE ;
bReturnVal = CreateProcess(NULL, (LPTSTR)pszCmd, &saProcess, &saThread,
FALSE,
DETACHED_PROCESS,
NULL,
NULL,
&si,
&process_info) ;

if (bReturnVal)
{
CloseHandle( process_info.hThread ) ;
WaitForSingleObject( process_info.hProcess, INFINITE ) ;
GetExitCodeProcess( process_info.hProcess, &dwExitCode ) ;
CloseHandle( process_info.hProcess ) ;
}
return dwExitCode;
}



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