Re: Is HHOOK a kernel object?

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:23:29 -0400
Message-ID:
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FaisalVali <faisalv@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sep 3, 2:02 pm, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote:

FaisalVali <fais...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know if the handle (HHOOK) returned by SetWindowsHookEx,
is a kernel object or not (i.e Can I duplicate it across process
boundaries?)


HHOOK for a global hook is system-wide. You don't need to do anything
special to duplicate it, just pass it around as-is. After all, a hook
DLL loaded into another process needs it to do CallNextHookEx.


Actually it's a handle to a *local* hook that i store in shared memory
- and i would like to unhook it from a different process (when that
process installs a global hook).


I don't quite understand why you want to do that, but try it, it'll
probably work.
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