Re: [PATCH] compat/mingw: Allow SIGKILL to kill in mingw_kill.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 28, 2026, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa4tjjn24.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <7c0384e2-0d8c-17f2-9881-cf14b24c0a21@gmx.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> The version that that Git for Windows carries is actually really
> different. For one, it gives processes a chance to run their `atexit()`
> handlers when being terminated via `SIGTERM`.
>
> I'm afraid that the patch under discussion would severely conflict with
> Git for Windows' code. Git for Windows' code, that is, that should have
> been upstreamed a long time ago, but wasn't, out of time constraints.
>
> I'll try to polish the patches and upstream them.

Thanks.