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edited May 16, 2018 at 13:01To 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 an...
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Learn how to use the TerminateProcess function to unconditionally cause a process to exit and stop execution of all its threads. See the syntax, parameters, return value, remarks, and requirements for this function. See more
- If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.
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