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From: "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com>
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Subject: RE: howto register process
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:13:51 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Kamen TOMOV
> Sent: 11 November 2004 11:01
> To: cygwin
> Subject: howto register process
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an application that is created to work on Unix but it is
> supposed to run on Windows as well. The problem is that we have a
> daemon that spawns a few children and later it needs to kill them. The
> parent process is supposed to communicate with its children by signals
> and to eventually terminate them. I would like to use kill(pid,
> signal) to kill the processes because they rely on the signals
> mechanizm. 
> 
> The problem is that kill returns "not such pid". Is there a way to
> register a process in the cygwin process table so that later be able
> to kill it with kill()? TIA.

  You can't kill a windows process with cygwin kill.  Presumably your software
is using the windows native functions to spawn child processes?  That's not
necessary: cygwin gives you unix syscalls on windows.  If you used the standard
posix functions (fork/exec/etc) to start the children, kill would work fine on
them, and you'd have a lot more common code and a lot less differences to keep
track of between your unix and 'doze versions of your code.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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