How to kill a process in cygwin?

Question

Hi i have the following process which i cant kill:

I am running cygwin in windows xp 32 bit.

I have tried issuing the following commands:

/bin/kill -f 4760 /bin/kill -9 5000 kill -9 5000 kill 5000 

When i write /bin/kill -f 4760 i get the message, 'kill: couldn't open pid 4760'.

When i write /bin/kill -9 5000 i get the message, 'kill: 5000: No such process'.

I simply don't understand why this process cant be killed. Since it has a WINID shouldnt it be killed by /bin/kill -f 4760?

hope someone can help thx :)

Answer 1

The process is locked from Windows most likely. The error you are getting "couldnt open PID XXX" points to this. To confirm try killing it with windows taskkill

    taskkill /PID 4760 

Answer 2

Strangely, the following works in Cygwin:

echo PID1 PID2 PID3 | xargs kill -f 

For example:

ps -W | grep WindowsPooPoo | awk '{print $1}' | while read line; do echo $line | xargs kill -f; done;