Re: Process command lines for Cygwin processes no longer viewable in Windows task manager as of Cygwin 1.7.21

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul 24 22:38, Tom Honermann wrote:
> It seems that process command lines for Cygwin processes are no
> longer viewable in Windows task manager, SysInternals Process
> Explorer, or other similar tools.  I suspect, but have not verified,
> that this change occurred with the Cygwin 1.7.21 release.  Process
> command lines do appear as expected for older Cygwin releases (at
> least 1.7.9-1.  Yes, I know that is ancient).
> 
> My suspicion that this started with 1.7.21 is based on Corinna's
> comments in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00343.html and
> other anecdotal evidence of new problems occurring as of that
> release.

This is by design now as described in the aforementioned posting.  If
you want to see the command line of a Cygwin application called by
another Cygwin application, see /proc/$pid/cmdline.


Corinna

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