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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000
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Adding upstream version 124.0.1.upstream/124.0.1
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#include "nsISupports.idl"
+
+[scriptable, uuid(1341f571-ebed-4305-b264-4d8fc3b6b11c)]
+interface nsIProcessToolsService: nsISupports {
+ /**
+ * Kill a process running on this system.
+ *
+ * Does not cause a crash report to be generated and sent.
+ *
+ * # Note
+ *
+ * `pid` is the unique-to-the-system process identifier, as
+ * obtained with attribute `pid` of this service.
+ *
+ * Under Un*ix, that's what you obtain with `getpid()`, etc.
+ * Under Windows, that's what you obtain with `GetCurrentProcessId()`,
+ * NOT the same thing as the process `HANDLE`.
+ *
+ * # Failure
+ *
+ * Under Windows, if two processes race to `kill()` a third process,
+ * or two threads race to `kill()` a process there is a (small) window
+ * during which this can cause a crash in the losing process.
+ *
+ * # Caveats
+ *
+ * Under Windows, process killing is asynchronous. Therefore, this
+ * function can return before process `pid` is actually dead.
+ */
+ void kill(in unsigned long long pid);
+
+ /**
+ * Crash a process running on this system. Generates a SIGABRT on Linux and
+ * macOS, and a STATUS_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION on Windows.
+ *
+ * Does cause a crash report to be generated.
+ */
+ void crash(in unsigned long long pid);
+
+ /**
+ * The pid for the current process.
+ */
+ readonly attribute unsigned long long pid;
+};