Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20050510220741.32025.qmail@web51804.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:07:40 -0700 (PDT) From: David Fong Subject: how to kill windows process from bash shell? To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi, I need some help. I have one windows process (WinXP) that is running from one cygwin window. The process is hanging and I want to kill the process from another cygwin window. There is a separate spawned process from my program C:\windows\system32\dwwin.exe and it has a process number displayed when I run ps -W in a separate cygwin process. 2480 1172 2480 2480 con 11293 13:14:32 /cygdriver/c/hw/destination/rundump.bat 2816 0 0 2816 ? 0 13:41:32 C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe 2652 0 0 2652 ? 0 13:41:32 C:\hw\destination\cmodel\player\Player.exe 3412 0 0 3412 ? 0 13:41:32 C:\windows\system32\dwwin.exe The dos batch file (rundump.bat) runs cmd.exe which calls Player.exe which calls this dwwin.exe when error occurs which has message of Player.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. .... Please tell Microsoft about this problem. .... Send Error Report Don't Send As an example, it is process number 3412. When I type $ kill -9 3412 in the cygwin windows, it replies that the process bash: kill: (3412) - No such process or when I type $ kill -f 3412 bash: kill: f: invalid signal specification I'm not familiar with usage of kill -f, only kill -9 so I'm confused on what is the appropriate usage to kill process 3412. Also, trying to kill 2652 does not work with same message. I don't want to kill the original calling batch file because I want to let it continue. I only want to kill the hanging windows process. David __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/