New in the Knowledge Library: Windows system programming in Rust @zodiacon.
windows crate features, unsafe Win32 boundaries, Toolhelp process enumeration, and UTF-16 handling.
trainsec.net/library/windows…
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Day 1:
Built a simple Process Manager tool that lists all running processes and their PIDs using the Windows API and the ToolHelp API.
Starting to get a grasp of using the APIs and C . Next going to add Memory Usage info 🙃
I've learnt the basics of C in preparation for this. The choice was between C and C so I went with the later.
For Day 1 I'm going to build a Process Monitor (Task Manager) tool in C to help me understand Windows processes, memory usage, and system calls.
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19 Dec 2024
before tools like process explorer and others this was one of the first (only?) ways to get an idea of what was going on under the hood with win95, and later versions.
(when the toolhelp api came out it was possible to write your own much more easily.)
i’m just one of millions to have used both, but i just wanted to say thank you.
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I've made a tool that can list (walking) and read the processes memory using Windows APIs such as PSAPI/ToolHelp/WTSAPI, Dumper can be used to develop dump actions via reading the PVA spaces
github.com/u0pattern/Dumper
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13 Aug 2021
More generally, you can find the "parent" of any process using the ToolHelp API (docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win…). Note there's no hard concept of owning parent in Win32 so the parent might die and the PID recycled to another process.
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I’m actually always been kind of of fascinated by the pile of obsolete/failed ‘90s Win32 stuff.
Apartment threading, monikers, DDE, OLE, DCOM, classic GDI, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, Video for Windows, ActiveMovie/DirectShow, WinG, thunks, ToolHelp, ActiveX…
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27 Nov 2018
Did Indian ToolHelp Egyptians Achieve Pyramid Perfection? indianexpress.com/article/ex… via @IndianExpress
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