Kill -9 PID gives Operation not permitted error

[Parthiv Shah]

thank you, /bin/kill -f PID worked !!

Parthiv

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From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
Of Igor Pechtchanski
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:24 PM
To: Parthiv Shah
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Kill -9 PID gives Operation not permitted error


On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Parthiv Shah wrote:

> Hi,
> I am starting a process from cygwin on windows and I can see the PID in
> "ps -ef" command. when I try to kill this PID with kill -9 PID it gives me
> error that "operation not permitted"
> I start the process with ./application.exe on command line of cygwin.
>
> thanks,
> Parthiv

Try /bin/kill -9 PID, and if that doesn't work, /bin/kill -f PID.  Since
you're starting the application as yourself, you should have enough
privileges to kill it.
	Igor
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