killing wine dregs

[Francois Gouget]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, wino at piments.com wrote:
[...]
> I find killing it by hand labourious so I used the following command to clean 
> up and have now defined it as an alias to make life easier.
>
> pgrep wine|while read p; do kill -9 $p ; done;

You should try out pkill to simplify it even further.

[...]
> in fact it seems even kill -9 cant clean up some times.

Besides the zombie processes mentionned before, some processes may be 
stopped (e.g. by the debugger) and won't die until you send them a CONT 
signal.

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Francois Gouget         fgouget at free.fr        http://fgouget.free.fr/
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