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Re: Warning from AV software about kill.exe

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Dec 22, 2011, 08:45 UTC
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Erik Blake <erik@icefield.yk.ca> writes:
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> 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
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