CreateProcess doesn't pass command line arguments

Question

Hello I have the following code but it isn't working as expected, can't figure out what the problem is.

Basically, I'm executing a process (a .NET process) and passing it command line arguments, it is executed successfully by CreateProcess() but CreateProcess() isn't passing the command line arguments

What am I doing wrong here??

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    PROCESS_INFORMATION ProcessInfo; //This is what we get as an [out] parameter

    STARTUPINFO StartupInfo; //This is an [in] parameter

    ZeroMemory(&StartupInfo, sizeof(StartupInfo));
    StartupInfo.cb = sizeof StartupInfo ; //Only compulsory field

    LPTSTR cmdArgs = "[email protected]";

    if(CreateProcess("D:\\email\\smtp.exe", cmdArgs, 
        NULL,NULL,FALSE,0,NULL,
        NULL,&StartupInfo,&ProcessInfo))
    { 
        WaitForSingleObject(ProcessInfo.hProcess,INFINITE);
        CloseHandle(ProcessInfo.hThread);
        CloseHandle(ProcessInfo.hProcess);

        printf("Yohoo!");
    }  
    else
    {
        printf("The process could not be started...");
    }

    return 0;
}

EDIT: Hey one more thing, if I pass my cmdArgs like this:

// a space as the first character
LPTSTR cmdArgs = " [email protected]";

Then I get the error, then CreateProcess returns TRUE but my target process isn't executed.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Answer 1

You should specify also the module name in parameters: LPTSTR cmdArgs = "App [email protected]"; It should be the whole command line (including argv[0]).