[PATCH] kill -f

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Wed Nov 3 18:57:00 GMT 2004


Pierre A. Humblet schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>>Pierre A. Humblet schrieb:
>>
>>>This patch allows kill.exe -f to deal with Win9x pids.
>>
>>Needs the bash internal also a patch like this?
>  
> The bash internal doesn't kill Windows pids, neither on NT
> nor on 9X. I am not in favor of adding Windows specific frills
> to bash. /bin/kill is a Cygwin program,  its man page says
> that the -f switch kills Windows pids.

oops, my $(man kill) misses this interesting info.
because I didn't patch that away in my experimental coreutils.

I only remembered --force
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Reini Urban
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