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win32process question

Tom Harris TomH at optiscan.com
Sun Nov 25 17:17:47 EST 2001 
Greetings,

I have been playing with starting up processes in Win32, but I also need to
be able to kill them if they hang. I have been using
win32process.TerminateProcess() to do this, but this is not the best method
as it does not allow the killed process to do any cleanup, unload DLLs, kill
child processes, etc. The way Windows would *like* you to do it is to
persuade the process-to-be-killed to call the (Win32 API call)
ExitProcess(), I think that the default ctrl-C and ctrl-break handlers make
a thread that does just this, has anyone made a module to deliver signals to
arbitrary processes for Win32?

Tom Harris, Software Engineer
Optiscan Imaging, 15-17 Normanby Rd, Notting Hill, Melbourne, Vic 3168,
Australia
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