How to Compare Two variable of HANDLE type

Question

I have a variable of HANDLE type. First HANDLE variable is a process HANDLE (with name hProcess) that does not have PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION access right. Second variable is a process HANDLE (with name hwndProcess) too that I have opened via OpenProcess function and have PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION access right. I am sure both processes should have same handle. But when i compare them as below, it returns false; if (hProcess==hwndProcess) {do something} How shall I do it?

Answer 1

There is not an explicit way to check whether two handles refer to the same process. The only way would be to query the process information and check that, e.g. using GetProcessId on each handle to check the process IDs.

If you don't have the necessary access rights to call the desired query functions then you can try calling DuplicateHandle to get a new handle with more access rights. However, if this fails then you have no way of telling whether the handles are to the same process or not.