[Python-Dev] os.kill() on Win32 ? (Fork on Win32)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Mark Hammond wrote:
> 
> > Next, I'll have to find out how to kill a process given
> > its process ID under Windows... wouldn't it be possible to
> 
> hprocess = OpenProcess( accessFlags, bInherit, pid );
> TerminateProcess(hprocess, exitCode);

Would it make sense to add something like this to posixmodule.c
as emulation of the Unix kill() on Win32 ?

Here's the manpage for reference:

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <signal.h>

       int kill(pid_t pid, int sig);

DESCRIPTION
       The kill system call can be used to send any signal to any
       process group or process.

       If pid is positive, then signal sig is sent to pid.

       If pid equals 0, then sig is sent to every process in  the
       process group of the current process.

       If pid equals -1, then sig is sent to every process except
       for the first one, from  higher  numbers  in  the  process
       table to lower.

       If  pid is less than -1, then sig is sent to every process
       in the process group -pid.

       If sig is 0, then no signal is sent, but error checking is
       still performed.

RETURN VALUE
       On  success,  zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned,
       and errno is set appropriately.
 
> The hard bit on Win32 is finding the PID when you only have the process
> name (for example) but it sounds like you dont have that specific
> problem...

Not really, since my server manages its own set of processes
and knows the different PIDs. It keeps track of what the processes
currently do and terminates the ones that act in unexpected ways,
e.g. due to programming errors. 

On Unix this results in a high availability bug tolerant
server application which allows running user written code. My future
goal would be porting it to Win2k, provided the needed APIs are
available (or can be emulated in some way).

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