Waiting for Thread / Process termination

When launching child processes from applications I used to use GetExitCodeProcess on the process handle, checking if STILL_ACTIVE is returned if it is still running.. heres the smart way!

After spawning a process or creating a worker thread the end of the process/thread can be waited on using WaitForSingleObject.

For instance for threads:

HANDLE hThread;

hThread = CreateThread(NULL,0,StartThread,&threadParam,0,NULL);

if(hThread1 != NULL)

{

WaitForSingleObject(hThread,INFINITE);

}

For processes:

PROCESS_INFORMATION pi={0};

if (CreateProcess (parameters, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &pi))

{

WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess,INFINITE);

}