I've been searching examples for the Win32 API C++ function TerminateProcess() but couldn't find any.
I'm not that familiar with the Win32 API in general and so I wanted to ask if someone here who is better in it than me could show me an example for,
If you aren't familiar with C++ a C# equivalent would help too.
1. Terminate is a term used to describe the process of stopping a running software program or permanently removing a program from a computer. Tip. In Windows you can terminate a process through the Task Manager. 2.
The TerminateProcess function is used to unconditionally cause a process to exit. The state of global data maintained by dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) may be compromised if TerminateProcess is used rather than ExitProcess.
To answer the original question, in order to retrieve a process handle by its PID and call TerminateProcess, you need code like the following:
BOOL TerminateProcessEx(DWORD dwProcessId, UINT uExitCode)
{
DWORD dwDesiredAccess = PROCESS_TERMINATE;
BOOL bInheritHandle = FALSE;
HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess(dwDesiredAccess, bInheritHandle, dwProcessId);
if (hProcess == NULL)
return FALSE;
BOOL result = TerminateProcess(hProcess, uExitCode);
CloseHandle(hProcess);
return result;
}
Keep in mind that TerminateProcess does not allow its target to clean up and exit in a valid state. Think twice before using it.
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