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Re: kill and Windows applications
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:20:13PM -0800, Paul Garceau wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>On 9 Dec 2000, at 23:38, the Illustrious Scott Glenn wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> kill does not work with Windows PID's as far as I can tell.
>>
>> Is there a flag option (ps -W gives you the Windows pids, but
>> that doesn't work on kill)?
>
> Unless that has been added to Cygwin api, no. NT4 requires
>administrative access to kill a process id. This is specific to
>NT4 or any of its children (NT4/Win2k).
> Win2k may not care as much, but it will still require
>administrative access to kill a process. I don't believe that
>the task manager for Win2k may be launched by any but the folks
>with adminstrative access.
>
> Win9x doesn't have such a thing as administrator, so it might
>be easier to kill a process therein. However, given the
>architecture of the so-called Win9x "task manager" (invoked by
>pressing ctrl-alt-del) the option may be either to kill the
>process (Win32 shell command) or a system restart.
> To do such things from the Win32 OS or at an application level,
>you must use the shellapi stuff included with the Cygwin
>distribution.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-12/msg00434.html
cgf
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