problem with getppid()

[Eduardo Chappa <chappa at math dot washington dot edu>]

Hello,

  I have a problem runing the following program "test.c"

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>

main()
{
  int p;

  if((p = getppid()) == 1)
    printf("My parent is bad, ppid=%d\n", p);
  else
    printf("My parent is good, ppid=%d\n", p);

  exit(0);
}
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I build the program with the command

gcc -g -o test test.c

The problem is the following. When I execute the program in the command 
line

./test

I get the output: "My parent is good", but if I execute the same program 
under gdb

gdb ./test
(gdb) run

The output is "My parent is bad". I believe this is a bug in Cygwin's 
implementation of getppid().

Could someone please confirm this. Hopefully it is easy to fix.

Thank you.

--
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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