Re: Warning from AV software about kill.exe

>Erik Blake <erik@icefield.yk.ca> 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.