> Git binaries are pure Windows applications, not MSys apps. (Compiled with > MinGW, but not linked to MSys DLLs.) Thus, it will definitely not respond to > the Cygwin/MSys process infrastructure.
Aha! Killing a native Windows application definitely requires a native kill utility. Cygwin version of kill.exe supports a special '-f' flag to kill native apps, but the msys variant that I downloaded (found in coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2) doesn't understand it. It seems that Cygwin uses a separate custom implementation. Alexander
