kill function

[Sergey Okhapkin]

Alistair McEwan wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there  is an equivalent of the kill  function
> (sending signals) in Win32?
>

There is no unix signals equivalents in win32. Cygwin.dll uses window 
messages to emulate signals.

> This is assuming that I have a handle to a process and the pid of that
> process (I can use either/or) and I  want to send it a signal.

You can only terminate the process with TerminateProcess() syscall, or wait 
for a process exit. Using a debug API you can read/write process's 
memory/context. Will it help you?

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