Forces the process to terminate. This function is documented in Windows Driver Kit.

Parameters

• ProcessHandle - an optional handle to a process granting PROCESS_TERMINATE access or the NtCurrentProcess pseudo-handle. The NULL value indicates the current process.
• ExitStatus - the exit code to use for the process.

Remarks

Note that specifying NULL as a process handle has a different semantic compared to using NtCurrentProcess. NtCurrentProcess immediately terminates the current process (without returning from the function) while NULL terminates all threads except for the calling, sets the exit status, and marks the process for self-delete. A second call to NtTerminateProcess with NULL completes termination.

To exit the current process gracefully, use RtlExitUserProcess.

Setting ExitStatus to DBG_TERMINATE_PROCESS automatically clears the process's debug object.

The process object becomes signalled after termination.

Related Win32 API

• TerminateProcess

See also

• NtOpenProcess
• NtCreateProcess
• NtCreateUserProcess
• RtlExitUserProcess
• RtlExitUserThread
• NtTerminateThread
• NtWaitForSingleObject