Re: Zenmap couldn't termate nmap.exe process when exiting

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:03:45PM +0300, Shinnok wrote:
> On 6/22/2011 6:47 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> > This doesn't work for me; Python installed according to the instructions
> > in docs/win32-installer-zenmap-buildguide.txt doesn't have the win32api
> > module. If I remove the try...pass I get an exception when trying to
> > kill a scan.
> >
> > Can you back out this change until we've had time to discuss it and
> > possible alternatives?
> >
> > David Fifield
> Reverted.
>
> The problem was that win32api module is part of pywin32 which was available
> in Active Python but not Python from Python.org, which figures as to
> be used in
> win32-installer-zenmap-buildguide.txt.
>
> However, I've since reverted to an exact environment as in the
> zenmap build guide and
> I have the following two alternative approaches that work just fine:
>
> #Use ctypes instead pywin32 which is a standard library in
> Python.org distribution
> import ctypes
> ctypes.windll.kernel32.TerminateProcess(int(self.command_process._handle),
> -1)
>
> -or-
>
> # :-P
> os.popen('TASKKILL /PID '+str(self.command_process.pid)+' /F')

The ctypes method looks good to me. Please check that it works back to
Windows XP, and then you can commit it.

David Fifield
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