From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pat Thoyts Subject: Re: Warning from AV software about kill.exe Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:19:29 +0000 Message-ID: <878vm4lb9q.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk> References: <4EF2E08C.3050502@icefield.yk.ca> <87mxalkn9q.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Erik Blake , To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 22 21:01:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rdops-0003Lf-CD for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:01:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755765Ab1LVUBs (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:01:48 -0500 Received: from queueout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.56]:38576 "EHLO queueout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755680Ab1LVUBr (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:01:47 -0500 Received: from know-smtpout-4.server.virginmedia.net ([62.254.123.2]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20111222181930.SGUR19823.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@know-smtpout-4.server.virginmedia.net>; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:19:30 +0000 Received: from [94.171.229.22] (helo=fox.patthoyts.tk) by know-smtpout-4.server.virginmedia.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RdnEo-0008LV-OW; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:19:30 +0000 Received: by fox.patthoyts.tk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1922A2015A; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:19:30 +0000 (GMT) X-Face: .`d#euqz@6H{";Ysmx2IVe_7M3vA+2w1X[QLk?ZO&QRauXQL{*L'$3getx}9+zK.-KWDx3. qrlR)76MFb`6bgoGvLpLtcQKB=X~;* (Thomas Rast's message of "Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:45:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=R50lirqlHffDPPkwUlkuVa99MrvKdVWo//yz83qex8g= c=1 sm=0 a=O9HYxzjLEG8A:10 a=uTYu3cP4YFoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=Rf460ibiAAAA:8 a=lbFHttIAw5w7gDJkSV0A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thomas Rast writes: >Erik Blake 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/ PGP fingerprint 2C 6E 98 07 2C 59 C8 97 10 CE 11 E6 04 E0 B9 DD