From: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users•sourceforge.net>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student•ethz.ch>
Cc: Erik Blake <erik@icefield•yk.ca>, <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Warning from AV software about kill.exe
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:19:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vm4lb9q.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxalkn9q.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> (Thomas Rast's message of "Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:45:37 +0100")
Thomas Rast <trast@student•ethz.ch> writes:
>Erik Blake <erik@icefield•yk.ca> writes:
>
>> I'm running git under Win7 64. As I selected "Repository|Visualize all
>> branch history" in the git gui, my AV software (Trustport) trapped the
>> bin\kill.exe program for "trying to modify system global settings
>> (time, timezone, registry quota, etc.)"
>>
>> Does anyone know the details of this process and what it's function
>> is? First time I've seen it, though I'm a relatively new user.
>
>'kill' is a standard unix utility that sends signals to processes, in
>particular signals that cause the processes to exit or be killed
>forcibly by the kernel, hence the name. (I don't know how the windows
>equivalent works under the hood, but presumably it's something similar.)
>
>git-gui and gitk use kill to terminate background worker processes that
>are no longer needed because you closed the window their output would
>have been displayed in, etc.
You might try replacing the command in the tcl scripts with 'exec
taskkill /f /pid $pid' and see if that avoids the error. taskkill is
present on XP and above as part of the OS distribution so shouldn't
suffer any AV complaints.
--
Pat Thoyts http://www.patthoyts.tk/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-22 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-22 7:47 Warning from AV software about kill.exe Erik Blake
2011-12-22 8:45 ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-22 18:19 ` Pat Thoyts [this message]
2012-01-04 9:15 ` Erik Blake
2012-01-05 16:33 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-01-06 13:51 ` Erik Blake
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