Process(0).kill() raises WindowsError exception

[giampaolo]

From billiej...@gmail.com on February 24, 2009 18:15:11

What steps will reproduce the problem?  
>>> psutil.Process(0).kill()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\psutil\psutil.py", line 140, in kill
    _platform_impl.kill_process(self.pid, sig)
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\psutil\_psmswindows.py", line 21, in
wrapper
    return callable(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\psutil\_psmswindows.py", line 44, in
kill_process
    return _psutil_mswindows.kill_process(pid)
WindowsError: [Error 87] Incorrect parameter


It seems we have to add another special case when killing PID 0.
Are you ok with raising InsufficientPrivileges?

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=24

[giampaolo]

From jlo...@gmail.com on February 24, 2009 13:04:22

Yes, this should raise an AccessDenied exception, it makes no sense to be able 
kill process 0 anyway.

[giampaolo]

From billiej...@gmail.com on February 24, 2009 14:12:29

Fixed as r164 .

Status: Verified

[giampaolo]

From billiej...@gmail.com on March 17, 2009 08:31:20

Status: Fixed

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on March 02, 2013 03:44:29

Updated csets after the SVN -> Mercurial migration: r164 == revision