Trapping TaskManager's kill process on win32

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send a WM_QUIT to the main window if you want the application to exit
gracefully. If it does not respond use TerminateProcess.

(if it has no window, use GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent to send Ctrl-C or
Ctrl-Break)

cheers

Simon

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dido Sevilla [mailto:dido.sevilla@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 6:32 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Trapping TaskManager's kill process on win32

On 9/23/05, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Gee, so there's only a SIGKILL on Windows, and no equivalent of a
SIGTERM? What if I want the process to try to do some cleanup before
dying? This is something I do fairly often with my programs on
GNU/Linux. Now if the cleanup is hosed, obviously I'd expect a kill -9
to still work of course...