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From:	Kamen TOMOV <kamen AT cybuild DOT com>
Subject:	Re: howto register process
Date:	12 Nov 2004 14:40:18 +0200
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On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Kamen TOMOV wrote:
> 
> > The parent process is started as a windows server. Then it
> > executes cygwin's fork. When I try to kill any of these with
> > kill() it returns "No such pid".
> 
> Are you sure you're not confusing Cygwin PIDs with Win32 PIDs?  In
> order to make the fork() magic work, Cygwin maintains its own PIDs
> in parallel to the actual windows PID.  All the Cygwin functions
> ...

Thanks Brian. Yes I am sure I'm not confusing them. I tryed a function
that is part of the cygwin's API. It is called cygwin_winpid_to_pid to
get the cygwin's PID but it returns -1 on pids which does not
correspond to a cygwin pid.
 
Regards,
-- 
Kamen TOMOV


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