Set affinity of already running task(s)

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  1. PhreakShow

    PhreakShow New Member

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    Hi folks,
    I've been silently reading (and searching) this forum for quite a while, but now I need to open a new thread because I didn't find a solution.

    The problem is: I have to create a program which is given the PID of a runing task, and then display the affinity mask. I wrote a sample containing this code:

    DWORD dwProcessAffinityMask, dwSystemAffinityMask;
    GetProcessAffinityMask( hProcess, &dwProcessAffinityMask, &dwSystemAffinityMask );

    This gives me a "3", which is correct because I'm running it at a Core2Duo machine. I also tested it on a 4x Double-Xeon machine with 128 logical CPUs, on which it returns "2^32 -1".
    But I'm stuck at this point, the last output doesn't make any sense.

    A huge problem is, that I cannot pass just the PID to GetProcessAffinityMask(), but the handle.
    How do I "convert" a PID to the correct handle or a already running task?
     

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