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Port Windows IPC Apps to Linux, Part 1: Processes and Threads

By Srinivasan S. Muthuswamy, Kavitha Varadarajan
2005-06-16

Terminating a process
To forcibly terminate a running process, you can use TerminateProcess() in Windows. 


BOOL TerminateProcess(

  HANDLE hProcess, // handle to the process

  UINT uExitCode   // exit code for the process

);

This function terminates the running process and all the associated threads. Use this function only in extreme scenarios.

In Linux, you can use kill() to forcibly kill a process: int kill(pid_t pid, int sig). This system call terminates the process of id PID. You can also use it to signal to any group or process.





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