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RE: Extending cygwin's process table
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- Subject: RE: Extending cygwin's process table
- From: "Tony Arnold" <tony dot arnold at man dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:16:01 +0100
Chris,
> >Does this mean we could get ps to report the Windows processes as well as
> >the cygwin ones? Also for kill to work on Windows processes as well as
> >cygwin ones, or is this asking too much?
>
> Nope. I was going to investigate doing this, too. I've had generic pid
> walking code for a couple of years that I was going to "round tuit" into
> cygwin but...
OK. Just a suggestion that I think could prove very useful.
> Btw, I should point out that it's not likely that I can get a
> 100% correspondence
> between windows pids and cygwin pids. Instead, the pids will
> have a likelihood
> of being the same but no guarantee.
I guess if you were going to implement my suggestion above, then there would
be a requirement for cygwin PIDs and Windows PIDs to be unique accross the
system, i.e., you could not have cygwin PID be the same number as a Windows
PID.
Regards,
Tony.
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