From b6326e92ef39b37361002bffb1f94645339eec59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:35:42 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] gitk: On Windows, use a Cygwin-specific flag for kill

MSysGit compiles git binaries as native Windows executables,
so they cannot be killed unless a special flag is specified.

This flag is implemented by the Cygwin version of kill,
which is also included in MSysGit.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---
 gitk | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index b523c98e4b..d7fea265f3 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -388,7 +388,12 @@ proc stop_instance {inst} {
     set fd $commfd($inst)
     catch {
 	set pid [pid $fd]
-	exec kill $pid
+
+	if {$::tcl_platform(platform) eq {windows}} {
+	    exec kill -f $pid
+	} else {
+	    exec kill $pid
+	}
     }
     catch {close $fd}
     nukefile $fd