[X4U] How to kill a hung Copy

[Stroller]

On 25 Nov 2006, at 01:12, Thomas Karns wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2006, at 4:54 PM, nk wrote:
>
>> OK..I did resort to that, and it worked...Finder took a bit to  
>> "come back," tho..but all is well now.
>>
>> but, is "Copy" a process that can be identified and killed with  
>> Activity Monitor or Terminal?
>
> I haven't tried with "Copy" specifically, but you should be able to  
> use the killall -u Copy command.  Experiment with something such as  
> the Dock, which will automatically restart after being killed.  Use  
> man killall to learn more about the command.

Um... you managed to avoid addressing the _process_ part of nk's  
question.

Any process that is listed in Activity Monitor can (surely?) be  
killed in this way from the command-line.

The Dock is a separate process from the Finder, so it can indeed be  
killed either from the the command-line or Activity Monitor.

The question is STRICTLY "does copy have a separate PID from Finder"  
or in other words "can the hung copy window be killed without killing  
Finder".

I _think_ the answer to this is "no", and would be grateful to hear  
otherwise.

Stroller.