From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: Warning from AV software about kill.exe Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:45:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87mxalkn9q.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> References: <4EF2E08C.3050502@icefield.yk.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: To: Erik Blake X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 22 09:45:49 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 1RdeHc-00031m-BN for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:45:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754780Ab1LVIpp (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:45:45 -0500 Received: from edge20.ethz.ch ([82.130.99.26]:6386 "EHLO edge20.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753811Ab1LVIpo (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:45:44 -0500 Received: from CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) by edge20.ethz.ch (82.130.99.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:45:39 +0100 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:45:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4EF2E08C.3050502@icefield.yk.ca> (Erik Blake's message of "Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:47:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch