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Re: [PATCH] kill -f

From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre at phumblet dot no-ip dot org>
To: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>
Cc: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:13:55 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill -f
References: <3.0.5.32.20041102211220.00827d50@incoming.verizon.net> <4188CB4C.4000401@x-ray.at>
Reply-to: pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org

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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