Creates and starts a new INtime iwin32 process. It is supported both in the INtime environment and in Windows. In addition to creating a process, it also creates a thread object.

BOOLEAN RtCreateProcess(
    LPCTSTR lpApplicationName,
    LPTSTR lpCommandLine,
    LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpProcessAttributes,
    LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpThreadAttributes,
    BOOLEAN bInheritHandles,
    DWORD dwCreationFlags,
    LPVOID lpEnvironment,
    LPCTSTR lpCurrentDirectory,
    LPSTARTUPINFO lpStartupInfo,
    LPPROCESS_INFORMATION lpProcessInformation
);

Parameters

lpApplicationName

Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the program to execute.

The string can specify the full path and filename of the module to execute or it can specify a partial path and filename.

lpCommandLine

Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the command line to execute.

lpProcessAttributes

Ignored. Must be set to NULL.

lpThreadAttributes

Ignored. Must be set to NULL.

bInheritHandles

Ignored.

dwCreationFlags

Set to 0 (zero) or:

NTX_PROC_XM

Causes the process to be created in XM mode.

NTX_PROC_NOTXM

Cause the process to be created in non-XM mode.

When neither NTX_PROC_XM nor NTX_PROC_NOTXM is specified, the mode defaults to that set in the executable file.

lpEnvironment

Ignored. Must be set to NULL

lpCurrentDirectory

Ignored. Must be set to NULL

lpStartupInfo

Ignored. Must be set to NULL

lpProcessInformation

Pointer to a _PROCESS_INFORMATION structure that receives identification information about the new process.

Return value

Returns a non-zero value on success, or FALSE on failure. The status code may be obtained by calling GetLastError().

Remarks

If lpProcessInformation is not NULL, the HANDLE of the new process returns; it should be closed when no longer required.

The thread's initial stack size is described in the image header of the specified program's executable file.

The thread begins execution at the image's entry point.

The process is assigned a 32-bit process identifier. The identifier is valid until the process terminates. It can be used to identify the process, or specified in OpenProcess to open a handle to the process.

The initial thread in the process is also assigned a 32-bit thread identifier. The identifier is valid until the thread terminates and can be used to uniquely identify the thread within the system. These identifiers are returned in the _PROCESS_INFORMATION structure.

The created process remains in the system until all threads within the process terminate and all handles to the process and its threads close through calls to CloseHandle.

The handles for the process and the main thread must be closed through calls to CloseHandle. If these handles are not needed, close them immediately after the process is created.

Requirements

Notes

• This function operates in the real-time portion of your application.
• The iwin32x API also includes an RtCreateProcess function that operates in the Windows portion of your application.