I have a process I spawn with a Cygwin shell script, and I am unable to kill it with the kill command. Even with the Cygwin kill with the -f option, I get this message:
kill: couldn't open pid 1234
I would like to try to kill it with PsKill, but I cannot find a way to convert the Cygwin PID to a Windows PID that PsKill will understand. How can I do that?
Have you tried running the cygwin kill instead of the bash builtin? If it is a Windows PID then type:
/bin/kill -f 1234
or if it is a Cygwin PID then type:
/bin/kill -9 1234
As far as I know there is no API to Cygwin that you could call to translate a Cygwin PID to a Windows PID. However, you could parse the output of ps -W to do the conversion. Or, if you really, really don't want to do that, then have a look at the source code for the Cygwin ps command, and see where they get the pids from. The Cygwin ps source code is here.. You could write a small utility in C to take the Cygwin pid and give you a Windows pid.