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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 11:59:04AM +0000, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>
>> --- Gio 5/11/09, Larry W. Virden  ha scritto:

>>> processes, and that helped some. Now he can see the
>>> processes using ps -Wef. However, when he issues a kill
>>> against the process id, kill says the process doesn't
>>> exist.

>> to kill a Windows program use a Windows kill.
>>
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx
> 
> That shouldn't be necessary if the windows program was started via
> cygwin.  If it wasn't started using cygwin then you can use the
> /bin/kill -f <windows-pid> to stop it.
  ^^^^^^^^^

  There's an implicit subtlety here: cgf wrote the full path to "/bin/kill"
here, because normally if you just type "kill" at the shell you will get the
shell's built-in kill command, which doesn't know the -f option.  Watch out
for that when you try it yourself.

    cheers,
      DaveK



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