How to check HandleCounts....

[Iceman2005]

Guys..... i am writing a program...and inside i am doing some heavy COM related stuff (use for parsing XML) in C++.

Seems like COM is giving me lots of Handle leaks...
i am not sure how to deal with this.

I would first like to write a simple program (without COM)
just a very simple program that will count the number of Handles currently on the running process.

Like i have a program called MyProg.... MyProg runs and will do a printf of its own handlecount to stdout.

How do i do that?

thanks,
iceman

 

[SDowd]

what handles are you actually trying to keep track of? handles to windows? hresults? if you felt like doing it manually you could just keep a static counter and increment/decrement with each new and delete of the handles. not really sure everything youre after.
hope that helps a little.
good luck,
steve

 

[ADoozer]

if your just looking for a program to check to see if your code has leaks, have a look at ProcessExplorer from sysinternals.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

if you still want to go down the writing your own program route, there is an API call

GetProcessHandleCount

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../en-us/dllproc/base/getprocesshandlecount.asp

that should do what you want (requires XPSP1 however).

alternatively you could try using

NtQuerySystemInformation

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...-us/sysinfo/base/ntquerysysteminformation.asp

(i think theres also a way to do it with WMI but im not 100% sure)

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