Windows System Programming Third Edition

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CHAPTER 6 PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Job Objects

Processes can be collected together into job objects where the processes can be

controlled as a group, resource limits can be specified for all the job object member

processes, and accounting information can be maintained. Job objects were

introduced with Windows 2000 and are supported in all NT5 systems.

The first step is to create an empty job object with

, which

takes two arguments, a name and security attributes, and returns a job object

handle. There is a lso an

function to use with a named object.

destroys the job object.

simply add s a process specified by a process

handle to a job object; there