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Closing programs (infosec.pub)

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 60 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

You're right about Linux but you're wrong about windows. It is sent to the event loop in windows https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/window-notifications. It's been a long time since it was my job, but you actually had to pass a certification that your application exited gracefully in response to these messages as part of the partner program back in the day.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

You clearly didn't read my message...I said a "window close message." I.e...WM_CLOSE. that is not a process signal, it's a window management signal. Hence taskkill not working without /f on headless processes