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RE: killall utility
- From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 23:39:32 +0100
- Subject: RE: killall utility
- References: <ICEBIHGCEJIPLNMBNCMKCEEECIAA.chris@atomice.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Chris January wrote:
> > 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.
I haven't tested it, but presuming it works, will you add it to the distro? :-)
Elfyn
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