Cobb: To Kill a Mocking Process

March 29, 2005

To Kill a Mocking Process

I have just been introduced to something that is giving me a reason, albeit late and a small reason, to respect Win32 just a tiny bit more. It is the Resource Kit.

Now I'm sure there are plenty of you out there who say, boy is this guy on the late freight. On the other hand, UNIX had kill -9, the lung-ripper, generations ago. That's what I needed and found in the Resource Kit. Virgil, if you're out there, you score one more point.

So I am finding a few more POSIX style utilities for Win32 and that's a pretty good thing. But I just wish I could get my old school ksh stuff to work without Cygwin. One of these days, I suppose.

Posted by mbowen at March 29, 2005 03:22 PM

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Your blog is a worthless piece of shyt. You're nothing but an "uncle tom". I'd tell that to your face no matter what my color was. Go jump in a lake you fruit.

Posted by: Qwon at March 29, 2005 08:04 PM

Last summer I was spending a lot of energy adding functionality to my W2K system - cygwin, some other POSIX utilities etc. Then I acquired my PowerBook - including ksh ...

Posted by: brian at March 29, 2005 09:07 PM