Windows pid kill

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Richard Kreiss (Mon, 5 May 2008 15:58:49 -0400):

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> Now to the question:
>
> If one uses tskill rclerk.exe /all or just tskill 5026 (rclerk pid not
> shown), how "gently" will this shutdown the clerk sessions?

You'll need to find out how tskill kills processes.

> Might I assume that if clerk in not in update on a record the file will be
> closed and there should be no damage to the file.
>
> However, what about if one of these sessions is in update mode on a record,
> how high is the probability that the file will be damaged?

Define "damaged".  I wouldn't expect it to be any worse than say "kill -9"
under Unix.

> One of my client's needs to backup his system and finds that some of the
> terminal server sessions have timed out while running clerk and cannot
> backup the open file(s).  Thus the need to kill these processes.

You'll need to find out how "tskill" works before you can get any definitive
answers.

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