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Diffstat (limited to 'psutil/arch/windows/process_info.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | psutil/arch/windows/process_info.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/psutil/arch/windows/process_info.c b/psutil/arch/windows/process_info.c index ad272bff..a59cce47 100644 --- a/psutil/arch/windows/process_info.c +++ b/psutil/arch/windows/process_info.c @@ -357,7 +357,10 @@ const int STATUS_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL = 0xC0000023L; /* * Given a process PID and a PSYSTEM_PROCESS_INFORMATION structure - * fills the structure with process information. + * fills the structure with various process information by using + * NtQuerySystemInformation. + * We use this as a fallback when faster functions fail with access + * denied. This is slower because it iterates over all processes. * On success return 1, else 0 with Python exception already set. */ int |