Mail Archives: cygwin/1996/12/06/09:27:25
Just used the mentioned utilities. Why is it that the cygnus utilities have
to have a different process number? When you run ps you get something like
this:
PID PPID WIN32-PID UID COMMAND
1000 1000 44 500
c:\software\gnu\x86-cygwin32\H-i386-cygwin32\bin\bash.exe
1001 1000 158 500
c:\software\gnu\x86-cygwin32\H-i386-cygwin32\bin\ps.exe
Why do we have 1000 and 1001 instead of 44 and 158? Since there are already
utilities out there (such as those in the resource kit) which use these
numbers, it makes sense to stick with them. Any reason to not use
WIN32-PID's?
Also, when I run who, I get:
who: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory
What kind of response is this? NT does not store user information in a file
called /var/run/utmp. Maybe if we wrote a device driver which mapped a file
of that name to a dump of current logged on users, it would work.
Also, when I alt-tab to a command window with bash running, I get a 'T'
entered into my window. Other people report similar things happening,
although each person seems to have a different letter. I have not yet seen
a reason for this on the list - is there an explanation?
While I am sending mail to the list, I would like to voice my opinion that
a project like this one will only start to work if two versions are made -
one for NT and one for 95. NT is too different to use the same source set.
What do people think of this?
Ben Constable
s2172184 AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au
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