From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-23T14:11:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Trapping TaskManager's kill process on win32

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Daniel Berger wrote:

> gga wrote:
>> Is there a way to trap the killing of a ruby windows process killed
>> thru the TaskManager?
>> I've tried trap(INT), trap(ABRT) and trap(KILL) and none seem to
>> respond to kill process.
>
> You can't.  Using the "end process" button on the Task Manager calls
> the TerminateProcess() function, which can't be trapped.  Read here for
> more:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/22/191123.aspx
>
> It's probably a good thing, too.  Imagine if you did this:
>
> trap("KILL"){ # Do nothing }
>
> How would you kill the process short of rebooting?

under *nix you can trap almost all signals - but not this one for that very
reason.  that's why 'kill -9' is dang handy ;-)

-a
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