Terminating System thread ..

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Hi,
How can I terminate a System thread whose handle is passed to me. (OS is
NT/2K)
I cant use PsTerminateSystemThread(STATUS_SUCCESS) since I am not in the
same Thread context which I want to kill, I just have the handle.
Is there a kernelCall available …

TIA
Rahul

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“rahul.gupta” wrote:

How can I terminate a System thread whose handle is passed to me. (OS is
NT/2K)
I cant use PsTerminateSystemThread(STATUS_SUCCESS) since I am not in the
same Thread context which I want to kill, I just have the handle.
Is there a kernelCall available …

No. You will need some mechanism to ask the thread routine itself to
make the call to PsTerminateSystemThread. I commonly use an event that
the thread routine waits on. Check out the POLLING sample in my WDM book
for an example.

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3

You cannot, system threads can only exit themselves, they cannot be
killed from other thread.

Max

----- Original Message -----
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Subject: [ntdev] Terminating System thread …

> Hi,
> How can I terminate a System thread whose handle is passed to me.
(OS is
> NT/2K)
> I cant use PsTerminateSystemThread(STATUS_SUCCESS) since I am not in
the
> same Thread context which I want to kill, I just have the handle.
> Is there a kernelCall available …
>
> TIA
> Rahul
>
>
>
>
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