Race condition with Performance Counters for current process

I am trying to get around the old "How do I get a Windows Performance Counter for the current process" issue. Basically I am enumerating Process Object instances to get a list of Process objects that I can then query for their process id and compare to my own.

Based on this I can build a performance counter path using the correct instance index (to create something similar to \Process(my_program#3)\<counter>) that I can then use to query whatever counter it is that I am interested in. But what happens if one or more of the other instances of my_program exit prior to the PdhAddCounter call? If I understand correctly, this would mean that my counter path now refers to a different process or is now invalid. They might 开发者_StackOverflow社区even disappear while querying for the process id...

How do I prevent the counter path from becoming invalid before I can use it to get a counter handle?

Wow, you are right. This seems like a major design flaw to me. Basically it is impossible to reliably monitor an instance if it's name is not unique. I did stumble across a workaround specifically for the Process and Thread objects, but that's a global setting that could affect other applications.

I think the safest way to do this would be to watch all process objects, and each time you collect the data go through and find the one with the desired Process Id.