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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Michael Haubenwallner" <michael DOT haubenwallner AT salomon DOT at>,
	"Christophe LEITIENNE" <cleitienne AT wanadoo DOT fr>
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Subject:	Re: cygipc shmat bug
Date:	Sat, 2 Feb 2002 09:16:57 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Haubenwallner" <michael DOT haubenwallner AT salomon DOT at>
> The problem is, that the pid-numbering of Windows is quite "confuse"
> (i don't know any better word), meaning that a later ipctest.exe
> gets the same pid as before, while the attach before with the same
> pid is not removed from the list yet.

So don't test by PID, test by handle. IIRC I've already suggested that.
Also, IIRC (Chris, Corinna you may have encountered evidence about this)
if you have a handle open for a process, it's PID isn't recycled until
all the handles have been closed).

Rob


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