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Re: problem with getppid()


On Sep 15 08:14, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
> gdb ./test
> (gdb) run
> 
> The output is "My parent is bad". I believe this is a bug in Cygwin's 
> implementation of getppid().

No, it's not a bug.  GDB starts the inferior process using the standard
Windows mechanisms since it should be useful also for native debugging.
When the inferior process is not started by Cygwin's own fork/exec
process, the child process doesn't know anything about its parent process,
at least not on Windows 9x.  There's a way to retrieve the native parent
PID by using NtQueryInformationProcess on NT, but it doesn't seem very
useful to get this information.


Corinna

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