> > > > In the cygwin-apps I have seen some messages > > > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-01/msg00340.html about a > > > killall > > > > util, which was going to be part of the cygutils packages but was waiting > > > > because of licensing problems. > > > > > > > > For killall I'm using a good working script for about a half year. Perhaps > > > > anyone like this to integrate in the cygutils package. This script allows > > > > killing more than one task, because it does a grep with the first param. > > > > > > > > syntax: killall <taskname> | <tasknamepart> > > > > > > > > > > > > $ cat /bin/killall > > > > ps -ea | grep $1 | gawk '$1 ~ /^[^SI]/ { system("kill -9 " $1); }' > > > See Randal's "Usesless Use of kill -9" posts... > > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=insubject:useless+insubject:use+insubject: > > > kill&hl=en&selm=8cpw0y2gb2.fsf_-_%40gadget.cscaper.com&rnum=1 > > > i.e. the signal sent should be configurable :-) > > > > > Okay I've read this - Does anyone have a solution for this or should > > this wheel > > have to created again ? At such time as the /proc patch is accepted into the Cygwin DLL, it should be possible to coerce killall from psmisc to compile and run.
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