Re: Question about kill

2012-05-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:18 PM, marco atzeri wrote: > On 5/6/2012 12:08 AM, eric_justin_allan wrote: >> Why can't I top post? >> > > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html See also http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU And also trimming the quote is always good. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com

Re: Question about kill

2012-05-05 Thread marco atzeri
On 5/6/2012 12:08 AM, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com! Well kill program_name didn't work and kill -9 is pretty much what I am looking for. Does it matter if you are gonna overwrite the program if you use kill -9? You have to ans

Re: Question about kill

2012-05-05 Thread eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com! Well kill program_name didn't work and kill -9 is pretty much what I am looking for. Does it matter if you are gonna overwrite the program if you use kill -9? You have to answer it for yourself. Do your program write any critical sta

Re: Question about kill

2012-05-04 Thread eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com
Well kill program_name didn't work and kill -9 is pretty much what I am looking for. Does it matter if you are gonna overwrite the program if you use kill -9? marco atzeri wrote: On 5/4/2012 2:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/04/2012 05:51 AM, marco atzeri wrote: Usually kill -9 your_prog

Re: Question about kill

2012-05-04 Thread marco atzeri
On 5/4/2012 2:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/04/2012 05:51 AM, marco atzeri wrote: Usually kill -9 your_program_name works very well Usually 'kill -9 your_program' is overkill; it forcefully terminates the program with SIGKILL, which means the program has no chance to clean up after itse

Re: Question about kill

2012-05-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/04/2012 05:51 AM, marco atzeri wrote: > > Usually > kill -9 your_program_name > > works very well Usually 'kill -9 your_program' is overkill; it forcefully terminates the program with SIGKILL, which means the program has no chance to clean up after itself, and can leave your file system

Re: Question about kill

2012-05-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 4 13:51, marco atzeri wrote: > On 5/4/2012 2:25 PM, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: > >Hey I'm not sure what version of cygwin I am using > > see > uname -a > > >but I can't seem to > >kill a server program with kill and I was hoping someone here might be > >able to shine some light

Re: Question about kill

2012-05-04 Thread marco atzeri
On 5/4/2012 2:25 PM, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Hey I'm not sure what version of cygwin I am using see uname -a but I can't seem to kill a server program with kill and I was hoping someone here might be able to shine some light on the subject. cygwin program or MS program ? cygwin

Question about kill

2012-05-04 Thread eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com
Hey I'm not sure what version of cygwin I am using but I can't seem to kill a server program with kill and I was hoping someone here might be able to shine some light on the subject. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Document