Getting a handle to the process's main thread

Question

I have created an additional thread in some small testing app and want to suspend the main thread from this additional thread. The additional thread is created via Cre

Answer 1

Get the thread id with this function:

/* CAUTION: ONLY x86 TESTED
 * get the thread id of the main thread of a target process
 *
 * params:
 *     DWORD dwPid  process id of the target process
 *
 * return:
 *     Success      thread id
 *     Error        NULL
 */
DWORD GetMainThreadId(DWORD dwPid)
{
    LPVOID lpTid;

    _asm
    {
        mov eax, fs:[18h]
        add eax, 36
        mov [lpTid], eax
    }

    HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_VM_READ, FALSE, dwPid);
    if(hProcess == NULL)
        return NULL;

    DWORD dwTid;
    if(ReadProcessMemory(hProcess, lpTid, &dwTid, sizeof(dwTid), NULL) == FALSE)
    {
        CloseHandle(hProcess);
        return NULL;
    }

    CloseHandle(hProcess);

    return dwTid;
}

Simple open the thread to get the handle:

/*
 * get a handle to the main thread of a target process
 * if successfull, the returned handle must be closed with CloseHandle()
 *
 * params:
 *     DWORD dwPid              process id of the target process
 *     DWORD dwDesiredAccess    desired access rights to the thread
 *
 * return:
 *     Success      thread handle with desired access rights
 *     Error        NULL
 */
HANDLE GetMainThreadHandle(DWORD dwPid, DWORD dwDesiredAccess)
{
    DWORD dwTid = GetMainThreadId(dwPid);
    if(dwTid == FALSE)
        return NULL;

    return OpenThread(dwDesiredAccess, FALSE, dwTid);
}