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

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:47:47AM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:05:15PM +0300, Shinnok wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Just fixed this in latest SVN revision r24238.
> > This was a trivial one:
> >
> > --snip--
> > -# Not sure if this works. Must research a bit more about this
> > -# subprocess's method to see how it works.
> > -# In the meantime, this should not raise any exception because
> > -# we don't care if it killed the process as it never killed it anyway.
> > -from subprocess import TerminateProcess
> > -TerminateProcess(self.command_process._handle, 0)
> > +import win32api
> > +win32api.TerminateProcess(int(self.command_process._handle), 0)
> > --snip--
>
> 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.

Not that this is saying much because the subprocess.TerminateProcess
method seems totally broken. ('module' object has no attribute
'TerminateProcess'.) It looks like longstanding code whose brokenness
was hidden by the try...catch block it's in.

David Fifield
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