From 2eb79c0a3a7663045bb2b0c7b44e180467f12bd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:47:22 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix pkill invocation

---
 publish.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/publish.py b/publish.py
index 87d911f13..d2703457b 100755
--- a/publish.py
+++ b/publish.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def run_build(args: Any) -> None:
             time.sleep(60)
             call(cmd, echo=True, timeout=timeout)
 
-    for x, retry_cmd in {'64': '', 'arm64': 'pkill -9 qemu-aarch64-static'}.items():
+    for x, retry_cmd in {'64': '', 'arm64': 'pkill -9 -f -e qemu-aarch64-static'}.items():
         prefix = f'python ../bypy linux --arch {x} '
         run_with_retry(prefix + f'program --non-interactive --extra-program-data "{vcs_rev}"', retry_cmd=retry_cmd)
     run_with_retry(