> I have a generalized routine that uses the CreatePprocess  api to launch
> applications.  It works properly most of the time
> but every now and then it returns a bad pid for a given app.
>  eg.
>   createprocess always returns a bad pid for the program  "pceditor.exe".
As
> a matter of fact the pid
>  does not exist at all!!
> Any ideas? thanks in advance.