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Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:02:21 -0400
- Subject: Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?
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> > Anyway, that answers my question. If I want to be sure a process from one of my
> > packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script.
>
> I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the requisite
> are you sure? y/N).
Ugh, both psmisc (killall) and procps (pkill) aren't in base, so both of
those may fail.