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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:09:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:44:32PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >FWIW, Cygwin's kill() understands Win32 PIDs, so you can at least skip
> >step 3.  I suggest looking at Cygwin's implementation of /bin/kill (in CVS
> >as winsup/utils/kill.cc).
>
> Sorry to contradict you again, Igor, but cygwin's kill understands win32
> pids only insofar as the win32 pid corresponds to a cygwin pid.  You
> can't use cygwin's kill() to kill a pure win32 process.  It only works
> on cygwin processes.  In particular, if a process has been exec()ed its
> cygwin pid will be that of the original process but its actual windows
> pid will be different.
>
> The kill.exe program has special logic for killing non-cygwin pids when
> -f is specified.  This is not supported by the cygwin DLL, however.
>
> cgf

Thanks, I appreciate the correction.  I'll just shut up now... :-)
	Igor
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