From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't kill a process within shell-mode (mac osx 10.3 Panther) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:41:49 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FDF983D.9060404@yahoo.com> References: <34a63a2c.0312161439.349e1c0e@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071618523 23723 80.91.224.253 (16 Dec 2003 23:48:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 00:48:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWOvg-000612-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 00:48:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWPrX-0003Lk-Ba for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:48:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071618110 5902437 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119402 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15341 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15341 Ray Hixson wrote: > I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0) of > 2003-10-25 on darkstar.local. > I use shell-mode constantly within emacs for example to tail log > files. The problem I'm having with this release is that Control-C > Control-C does not kill the tail. > And any other running process from that shell cannot be killed as > well. If your platform has the pkill command, you could work around the problem with something like: M-! pkill -x tail -- Kevin Rodgers