On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, wino@piments.com wrote: [...]
I find killing it by hand labourious so I used the following command to clean up and have now defined it as an alias to make life easier.
pgrep wine|while read p; do kill -9 $p ; done;
You should try out pkill to simplify it even further.
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in fact it seems even kill -9 cant clean up some times.
Besides the zombie processes mentionned before, some processes may be stopped (e.g. by the debugger) and won't die until you send them a CONT signal.