[PATCH] kill -f

Pierre A. Humblet pierre@phumblet.no-ip.org
Wed Nov 3 14:14:00 GMT 2004



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.

Pierre



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