Deliberately crashing an external process under Windows

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Published on 2009-11-17T15:20:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 6:43 UTC
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I would like to synthesise a native code fault. This is so that we can see where in particular some debugging output gets put when that occurrs.

Pskill (from Sys-Internals) causes a graceful exit. DotCrash.exe doesn't seem to be available anymore from Microsoft directly.

Is there any way to externally cause a crash in a process?

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