do package updates automatically kill running exes?

[Achim Gratz]

Andrew Schulman writes:
>> > Anyway, that answers my question.  If I want to be sure a process from one of my
>> > packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script.
>> 
>> I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the requisite
>> are you sure? y/N).
>
> Ugh, both psmisc (killall) and procps (pkill) aren't in base, so both of
> those may fail.

I'm not advocating to use these from pre-remove scripts.  What is the
problem you are trying to solve?  While you can run setup with active
Cygwin processes if you really know what you're doing, the long-standing
instructiosn are that you shiould shut down all running Cygwin processes
before running it.

As for my own installers, I can assume pkill to be available as long as
the Cygwin installation is still existing, since these are installed
with all installation option.


Regards,
Achim.
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