Hi all,
Sometimes it is convenient to do a "killall -9 wine-pthread" to kill Wine for whatever reason. This no longer works:
$ ps ax | grep wine-pthread | grep -v grep 10425 pts/4 S 0:00 /opt/wine/bin/wine-pthread notepad.exe
$ killall wine-pthread wine-pthread: no process killed $ killall wine-preloader $
Huh? WTF is going on here? Well, it seems that "ps" and "killall" look at different places to get the process name, so despite the fact that it appears as wine-pthread in the process list, you must use the name wine-preloader in order to send it signals from the command line.
There are reasons for this, which will hopefully become clear when I submit my docs on the Wine init process. For now, you have been warned.
thanks -mike