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

Question

I have (in the past) written cross-platform (Windows/Unix) applications which, when started from the command line, handled a user-typed Ctrl-C combinat

Answer 1

In Java, using JNA with the Kernel32.dll library, similar to a C++ solution. Runs the CtrlCSender main method as a Process which just gets the console of the process to send the Ctrl+C event to and generates the event. As it runs separately without a console the Ctrl+C event does not need to be disabled and enabled again.

CtrlCSender.java - Based on Nemo1024's and KindDragon's answers.

Given a known process ID, this consoless application will attach the console of targeted process and generate a CTRL+C Event on it.

import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.Kernel32;    

public class CtrlCSender {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        int processId = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
        Kernel32.INSTANCE.AttachConsole(processId);
        Kernel32.INSTANCE.GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent(Kernel32.CTRL_C_EVENT, 0);
    }
}

Main Application - Runs CtrlCSender as a separate consoless process

ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder();
pb.command("javaw", "-cp", System.getProperty("java.class.path", "."), CtrlCSender.class.getName(), processId);
pb.redirectErrorStream();
pb.redirectOutput(ProcessBuilder.Redirect.INHERIT);
pb.redirectError(ProcessBuilder.Redirect.INHERIT);
Process ctrlCProcess = pb.start();
ctrlCProcess.waitFor();