Subject: Re: cygipc shmat bug
From: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
To: "Michael Haubenwallner" <[email-masked]>, "Christophe LEITIENNE" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 09:16:57 +1100

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Haubenwallner" <[email-masked]>
> 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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