Forcefully terminates a thread.

Parameters

• ThreadHandle - an optional handle to a thread granting THREAD_TERMINATE access or the NtCurrentThread pseudo-handle. If this value is NULL, the calling thread is terminated.
• ExitStatus - the value to set as the exit 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.

Remarks

To exit the current thread gracefully, use RtlExitUserThread.

The thread object becomes signalled after termination.

Related Win32 API

• TerminateThread

See also

• RtlExitUserThread
• NtOpenThread
• NtSuspendThread
• NtTerminateProcess