[python-win32] about wmi exception

[Patrol Sun]

Thanks. Can you tell me how long the polling period of the process creation
is? So I can use the sleep and poll instead of the process creation
monitoring.

2008/7/16 Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:

> Patrol Sun wrote:
>
>> I want to prevent some process from running. The code is in the
>> following.
>>
>
> As an additional datum, the WMI event management code
> (at least for process creation) works by polling, not
> by receiving events from the underlying O/S. That
> means that it's possible to miss a creation event.
> If you want to be certain to close down certain processes,
> you'll need roll-your-own polling and look for the existence
> of a process, not its creation.
>
> TJG
>
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