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X-WM-Posted-At: avacado.atomice.net; Sun, 21 Apr 02 21:49:28 +0100
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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Offer for killall-script
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 21:49:28 +0100
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> > > > In the cygwin-apps I have seen some messages
> > > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-01/msg00340.html about
a
> > > killall
> > > > util, which was going to be part of the cygutils packages but was
waiting
> > > > because of licensing problems.
> > > >
> > > > For killall I'm using a good working script for about a half year.
Perhaps
> > > > anyone like this to integrate in the cygutils package. This script
allows
> > > > killing more than one task, because it does a grep with the first
param.
> > > >
> > > > syntax: killall <taskname> | <tasknamepart>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > $ cat /bin/killall
> > > > ps -ea | grep $1 | gawk '$1 ~ /^[^SI]/ { system("kill -9 " $1); }'
> > > See Randal's "Usesless Use of kill -9" posts...
> > >
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=insubject:useless+insubject:use+insubject:
> > > kill&hl=en&selm=8cpw0y2gb2.fsf_-_%40gadget.cscaper.com&rnum=1
> > > i.e. the signal sent should be configurable :-)
> > >
> > Okay I've read this - Does anyone have a solution for this or should
> > this wheel
> > have to created again ?
At such time as the /proc patch is accepted into the Cygwin DLL, it should
be possible to coerce killall from psmisc to compile and run.

Regards
Chris




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