Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:37:52 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.0-1 forked off child processes have open handles to non-existant processes Message-ID: <20030710173752.GB6345@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:48:21PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >I was just walking my process tree with the process explorer when I saw >the cron process had an open handle to a non-existant process >(presumably its parent). That is correct. It is working as designed. It has always done this. It keeps a handle open to the process so that the pid of the original process will not be reused. It also keeps several process handles open so that pids will not be reused too quickly as that confuses bash. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/