From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T02:10:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Killing Threads & Processes on Windows

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:30 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Killing Threads & Processes on Windows
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:45:28 +0900,
> Berger, Daniel wrote in [ruby-talk:161421]:
> > The win32/process package uses a CreateRemoteThread() + 
> ExitProcess() 
> > approach (except for signal 9, which then uses TerminateProcess).  
> > This was recommended as a safer way to kill Windows processes (by 
> > Jeremy Richter, among others).
> 
> It's also only for NT, isn't it?  Well, to be honest, I'd 
> like to divide executable files for NT and 95.

Probably.  I consider Win9x a dead platform, so I don't worry myself
with it. :)

Regards,

Dan