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Re: About "defunct" processes
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:39:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: About "defunct" processes
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- References: <531D9E82 dot 1050505 at alice dot it> <loom dot 20140311T132200-453 at post dot gmane dot org>
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:26:45PM +0000, Kurt Franke wrote:
>Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it> writes:
>
>
>> $ ps
>> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
>> 2648 1 2648 2648 ? 1001 12:01:38 /usr/bin/mintty
>> 3724 2648 3724 2012 pty0 1001 12:01:38 /usr/bin/bash
>> 3176 3724 3176 3832 pty0 1001 12:02:14 /usr/bin/ps
>> 1904 2648 2648 1760 ? 1001 12:01:41
>> /usr/bin/mintty <defunct>
>>
>> Why that "defunct" process? I don't remember having seen that before on
>> my old Cygwin32 installation.
>
>Hi,
>
>it looks like the cygwin process handling becomes more unix like :-)
Right. It's a new feature that I implemented sometime around 1998 or so.
cgf
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