Is it possible to add a method that kills the process tree?

[ymh199478]

.Net standard does not provide any method to kill a process tree.

[jonstelly]

I was just updating some projects to .NET Core 3.0 and coming here to ask the same. I had assumed dotnet core 3.0's Process.Kill(bool) method would be included in .NET Standard 2.1 but it doesn't seem to be.

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I have some shared Process code that was in a .NET Standard 2.0 library using my own hacky way of killing a process tree. I had anticipated removing it and switching to the .NET Core 3.0 method, but I guess I'll have to hold off on that. It would be really helpful to have this in .NET Standard

[darkguy2008]

I know some people don't like +1ing but I would like the same feature too. I had some hackish code too to do that using ManagementObjectSearcher but it threw a StackOverflowException on me. I really don't know why in .NET Core we're encouraged to use .NET Standard for Class Libraries when they don't have the same features found in .NET Core, so that is kind of a deal-breaker for my library today.

Any chances we can get this? How to make this issue get attention?

[Happypig375]

Just wait for .NET 5... I doubt a new .NET Standard will exist if .NET 5 is coming.

[darkguy2008]

Just wait for .NET 5... I doubt a new .NET Standard will exist if .NET 5 is coming.

Uh, yeah, well, I make apps for a living, so "just waiting" isn't exactly a solution. I bet there might be good things with .NET 5, but I don't think my bills could wait for its release.

For now all I did was to raise an event when the process needs to be killed, then the .NET Core app catches it along with the process Id and then calls process.kill(id) instead. Hackish, but it keeps going.

Still, I'm a bit baffled that .NET Standard lacks such a basic feature... even moreso when it's been implemented already in .NET Core which is multiplatform already, so I dunno what's the reasoning behind not doing it in .NET Standard.

[terrajobst]

Moving to dotnet/runtime as this as an API request.

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Issue Details

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.Net standard does not provide any method to kill a process tree.

Author:	ymh199478
Assignees:	-
Labels:	area-System.Diagnostics.Process
Milestone:	-

[jozkee]

This issue is asking to port Process.Kill(bool entireProcessTree) to standard, but AFAIK there are no plans of a netstandard2.2.

[terrajobst]

That's why I moved to dotnet/runtime. We should treat it as a feature request for Process.

[terrajobst]

Never mind. I just realized we already have the API in .NET 5.