PIJ - Run process tree in a job and wait for completion.

Usage

pij my-program.exe arguments...

Purpose

Use it when you want to run my-program.exe in a batch file, but my-program.exe starts another process(es) and returns before they complete, which is not what you want: batch file should continue only when all additional processes also exit. PIJ runs initial process in a job and waits for this job to become empty, before exiting.

Result code (ERRORLEVEL)

PIJ terminates with non-zero exit code if there's some problem during initial process creation or waiting phase. Zero exit code is returned when the last process in the job exits.

Restrictions

All arguments are passed to CreateProcess'es lpCommandLine, hence some restrictions on what you can start: it should be a real EXE file (please start cmd.exe if you want to run another batch file), standard directories and PATH are used, registry AppPaths aren't.

Author

Written by Anton Kovalenko anton@sw4me.com. My code is public domain. Uses some code by Raymond Chen.