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On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 09:01:38AM -0400, Christopher Jones wrote: >Seems like it would make more sense to at least hide these cygwin pids >and let users always use windows pids for ps, kill, $$ in a shell, etc. >So the PID and PPID values would be the real windows values and cygwin >pids would disappear into the internals somewhere... probably a lookup >table if you really need to have them still. Something like this would >be more seemless, wouldn't it? The main reason for cygwin pids is that there is no corresponding exec*() style interface in Win32 land. Most programs which use fork/exec also rely on the fact that the exec'ed process has the same PID as the fork. There is no way to do this using the Win32 API. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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