Subject: RE: getpid() problems
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

23 Feb 1997 03:54:49 -0800
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Pasqualino Assini wrote:
> I tried the getpid() function under winNT 4.0 using beta 17.1
> 
> The problem is that the pid that getpid() returns it's not the same as
> that shown by the Task Manager.
> 
> Any suggestion ?

Cygwin.dll maintains its own process table.

> 
> By the way, does anyone know how to check if a process with a given pid
> is alive ?

If You are interesting in cygwin's pid, you may use ps command from cygnus package. Pipe ps output to awk input.

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Sergey Okhapkin
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