Windows process creation notification

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 10 years, 1 month ago. Active 11 months ago. Viewed 4k times. I am trying to write kext for Mac OS X which will get notified when any process is started. Improve this question.

Petr Kizima Petr Kizima 33 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Well, your question is a bit ambiguous. Improve this answer. That is an excellent information! I just tried and it works. However, this only works for process start events. How do I get process exit events? JWWalker Technologeeks Technologeeks 6, 23 23 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges.

For anyone finding this question after Apple has a relatively new macOS I don't want to state the obvious but there is no "real time" with Windows which at any time schedules multiple threads, where your thread waiting for an event about the system creating a process, invariably consumes such event delayed, by strict definition of "delayed" -- it's not like Windows pauses the process creation and waits for your thread to return from a callback before continuing. So in that sense, whether you consume events from a buffer and with a delay or whether Windows say, posts a message to your thread queue, it's the same thing -- an async.

Necrolis Necrolis This only tracks processes with windows, but this is a good answer for a lot of scenarios. This also injects assemblies into said process. This is not an answer to the question. CBT hooks can monitor window creation an destruction.

The question is asking about the latter. A process can create a window, destroy it, sleep for a while, like a month, and then create a new window. How do you propose, that a CBT hook copes with this situation, when an application needs to be informed, that a process terminated? This is not an answer to the question that was asked. It really is that simple. You have been a member for more than 7 years. You should be aware of the rules. Links to off-site resources should be treated as optional information.

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Show 5 more comments. Red John Red John 10 10 bronze badges. That can't achieve system wide monitoring unless you do it in kernel and with PatchGuard that's not really possible. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. If fork is called, say 3 times, then the output would be printed 8 times 2 power 3. If it is called 5 times, then it prints 32 times and so on and so forth.

Having seen fork create the child process, it is time to see the details of the parent and the child processes. Asif Hussain. Kaushik Roy Chowdhury. Manish Gupta. Pranjal Srivastava. J Aatish Rao. Previous Page. Next Page.