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Re: Kill -9 PID gives Operation not permitted error
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Parthiv Shah <pshah at transat-tech dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:23:52 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Kill -9 PID gives Operation not permitted error
- References: <LHEEKMKBPHFCBIHIOGKPCEOICJAA.pshah@transat-tech.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Parthiv Shah wrote:
> Hi,
> I am starting a process from cygwin on windows and I can see the PID in
> "ps -ef" command. when I try to kill this PID with kill -9 PID it gives me
> error that "operation not permitted"
> I start the process with ./application.exe on command line of cygwin.
>
> thanks,
> Parthiv
Try /bin/kill -9 PID, and if that doesn't work, /bin/kill -f PID. Since
you're starting the application as yourself, you should have enough
privileges to kill it.
Igor
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