Can I send a ctrl-C (SIGINT) to an application on Windows?

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Published on 2009-05-01T20:18:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 7:59 UTC
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I have (in the past) written cross-platform (Windows/Unix) applications which, when started from the command line, handled a user-typed Ctrl-C combination in the same way (i.e. to terminate the application cleanly).

Is it possible on Windows to send a Ctrl-C/SIGINT/equivalent to a process from another (unrelated) process to request that it terminate cleanly (giving it an opportunity to tidy up resources etc.)?

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