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

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Long running headless processes on windows generally still have an event loop and a window handle via which they process those messages.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

...right...tell that to cmd.exe or the OpenVPN daemon, or the soft ether VPN daemon, or OpenConsole.exe, or Idk, I only tested 4 that immediately came to mind but my point stands. There are a lot of programs that do not have a window handle and do not bother with window messages.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Service (daemon) lifecycles are managed via the system services api.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Yep, I'm aware of that too, doesn't change my initial point