[python-win32] SafeTerminateProcess and request for CreateRemoteThread()

[Stefan Rank]

Hi,

I spent some time finding a safe way to kill/terminate a process on 
Windows. Attached is my current version, modelled after a DDJ article.

It should work for gui and console applications, has lots of unnecessary 
print output, uses ctypes for a call to CreateRemoteThread, and bypasses 
(I think ?) any signal handlers that might be registered.

I hope this is useful for someone.

Two questions:

- The first is the request to include CreateRemoteThread in win32api 
(which I will post on sourceforge)

- Does anyone know a similarly safe way for terminating a process so 
that a SIGINT/SIGTERM handler will still be called (without the need for 
a shared console or process group ids)?

cheers,
stefan
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