Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/07/19/09:08:03
cgf AT cygnus DOT com on 2000.07.18 23:43:19
>I'm also toying with trying to more closely tie cygwin pids to windows
>pids.
IMHO, this'd be great.
>Is anyone going to be bothered if pid creation is not monotonic? By
>that I mean, parent pid 1000 may not create child pid 1001. It may
>create child pid 27.
I don't think anything should be relying on this behaviour since it's not always
satisfied (ie when ppid is near the max pid allowed).
>It may still not be feasible to use cygwin pids as windows pids
>(possibly because I don't believe that pid 1 is special to windows) but
>I thought I'd give this a try anyway unless there is something that I'm
>missing.
Yeah, I'm not sure if it's possible, but it's worth a shot (unless someone out
there knows for sure that it's not possible).
Noel
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