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Date:	Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:37:15 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: the "kill" command
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On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:24:12PM -0400, Brian DOT Kelly AT Empireblue DOT com wrote:
>
>You have a point. I cannot kill some windows in processes "directly" within
>the bash environment either.
>But this works EVERY time:
>
>      cmd   /c  kill  --force   <PID>
>
>Try it, you'll like it.

Or, you could just do what I suggested, which is much easier than the above.

>p.s. It'd be nice if it worked "as advertised"   ;-)

It works as advertised.  You just have to meditate on the difference between
a bash built-in and an actual program like /bin/kill.exe .

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