From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: kill function 7 Jul 1997 14:31:26 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC8B2A.692215A0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Alistair McEwan'" Encoding: 20 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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? -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".