From: Park Heesob <phasis@...>
Date: 2003-01-21T13:35:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [WIN] killing a process

Hi,

"Shashank Date" <sdate@kc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:xH3X9.47653$Gm2.993831@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> Using ruby1.7.3 (2002-11-17) [i386-mswin32]
>
> 1. Under Windows (XP), is there a way to kill a process which is created
> using the system(" ...") call ?
>

Use taskmgr.exe

> 2. How does one use the Windows API:  TerminateProcess?
>
> Here is my attempt, assuming pid = 1234 (not sure if I am doing it right):
>
> require 'Win32API'
>
> tp = Win32API.new("kernel32","TerminateProcess",['i','i'],'i')
> tp.call(1234,1)
>
>
Try this:

OpenProcess = Win32API.new("kernel32","OpenProcess",['L','L','L'],'L')
TerminateProcess = Win32API.new("kernel32","TerminateProcess",['L','L'],'L')

TerminateProcess.Call(OpenProcess.Call(0x00100001, 0 ,pid),0)


Park Heesob