NtTerminateThread - NtDoc

Native API online documentation, based on the System Informer (formerly Process Hacker) phnt headers

#ifndef _NTPSAPI_H
// Threads
#if (PHNT_MODE != PHNT_MODE_KERNEL)

NTSYSCALLAPI
NTSTATUS
NTAPI
NtTerminateThread(
    _In_opt_ HANDLE ThreadHandle,
    _In_ NTSTATUS ExitStatus
    );

#endif
#endif
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#ifndef _NTZWAPI_H

NTSYSCALLAPI
NTSTATUS
NTAPI
ZwTerminateThread(
    _In_opt_ HANDLE ThreadHandle,
    _In_ NTSTATUS ExitStatus
    );

#endif
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Forcefully terminates a thread.

Parameters

ThreadHandle - a handle to a thread granting THREAD_TERMINATE access. If this value is NULL, the calling thread is terminated.
ExitStatus - the value to set as the exist status of the thread.

Notable return values

STATUS_CANT_TERMINATE_SELF - indicates that a thread attempted to terminate itself by default (called NtTerminateThread with NULL) and it was the last thread in the current process.

TerminateThread

See also

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