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From:	Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To:	"'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Extending cygwin's process table
Date:	Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:26:41 +0200
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Hi Chris,

I don't bother.
I dunno if PID 1is special to NT, but my System process is currently 2,
FWIW.
In case of a problematic PID assigned, perhaps retry creating another
process first, then terminate the original?

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Faylor [SMTP:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 19, 2000 05:43
> To:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject:	Extending cygwin's process table
> 
> I am planning on revamping cygwin's process table for version 1.1.4.
> I hope to make process creation a little faster and to also allow many
> more cygwin processes.
> 
> I'm also toying with trying to more closely tie cygwin pids to windows
> pids.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> cgf
> 
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