How to wait for a process to be gone in chef (Windows)

Question

I would like to make sure chef waits if a process is still running before continuing. How to do that on Windows?

Answer 1

As mentioned here a smart use of execute resource can be employed, i.e. to wait for TiWorker.exe process to complete before continuing:

execute "Wait until TiWorker is not present" do
   command "c:/Sysinternals/pslist /accepteula TiWorker"
   retries 30
   returns 1
   retry_delay 10
   timeout 10
end

where pslist is pslist