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RE: killall utility
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:54:40 +0100
- Subject: RE: killall utility
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:47:04AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > >I have written a killall utility based on the code already in
> utils/kill.cc .
> > >Would this make a worthy addition to Cygwin? If so, there's a
> bit of code
> > >duplication, so maybe moving the generic code into a file
> called `sigutil.cc' or
> > >something would be sufficient, having kill{,all}.exe depending
> on `sigutil.o'.
> > >
> > >Any ideas bofore I submit a patch?
> >
> > Can't you do something like this with the kill in procps?
>
> I did look and from the usage info, it doesn't look that way.
However you can compile the source for the /proc-based killall and it should
work as-is.
Chris