Re: Stats collection on Windows

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:20:47AM -0400, mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:
> TerminateProcess takes a HANDLE, not a process identifier. Yes, they
> provide the "kill" primitive, but only as a compatibility measure. A
> "good" Windows process, should maintain a HANDLE to the process, and
> kill the process using the HANDLE. This way, there is no race. The
> HANDLE is also how you wait for the process to terminate normally.

Which presents the solution, we should use the HANDLE on windows rather
than the process identifier.

> I prefer the "Redmond" way, in that I find UNIX's use of integer
> identifiers to be encouraging of race conditions. UNIX requires hacks
> like minimizing PID reuse, because UNIX is the one that is broken. :-)

Eh? A HANDLE is (or can be mapped to) an integer too. I don't see
anything on that page about handle reuse. If you run a machine long
enough I'm sure it can be reused also...

Have a nice day,

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