Avoid collisions between parallel installations of Cygwin
Earnie Boyd
earnie@users.sourceforge.net
Thu Oct 15 15:48:00 GMT 2009
Quoting "Larry Hall (Cygwin Developers)" <lhall@cygwin.com>:
> A. A user has a Cygwin installation and the "Nifty-Difty Ultimate
> SSH" 3PP installed.
> Surprisingly, "Nifty-Difty Ultimate SSH" hangs for some reason
> (it has a bug - who
> knew this could happen) and the user tries to kill it using
> Cygwin tools. The user
> sends email to the list asking why he can't find and kill the
> "Nifty-Difty Ultimate
> SSH" process using Cygwin's 'ps' and 'kill' (not '/bin/kill -f').
>
I find that when I have a hung ssh from a different instance of MSYS
the full path of the ssh is given in the ps list. It makes it easy to
determine which instance is which.
--
Earnie
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