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: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:08:58 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: howto register process Message-ID: <20041112180858.GB222609@Worldnet> References: <873bzfdyvh.fsf@zlatenlist.homelinux.net> <87sm7fxeza.fsf@zlatenlist.homelinux.net> <20041112154218.GI26737@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <874qjvezwn.fsf@zlatenlist.homelinux.net> <20041112175603.GB28975@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <87u0rvdjz6.fsf@zlatenlist.homelinux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87u0rvdjz6.fsf@zlatenlist.homelinux.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:02:05PM +0200, Kamen TOMOV wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > *Why* are you calling cygwin_winpid_to_pid on the pids? If you are > > getting the pid from the return value of fork they are cygwin pids. > > You don't call cygwin_winpid_to_pid on them. A normal cygwin > > program should not be using cygwin_winpid_to_pid. > > > > As Pierre points out in the next message, what you are describing > > seems normal for starting a service in certain scenarios but you > > still haven't explained why you think you need cygwin_winpid_to_pid. > > > > cgf > > The only reason why I call cygwin_winpid_to_pid is that I am > experimenting. The real problem is that kill() does not work. To facilate your experimenting, please be assured that kill won't work if ps doesn't show the process. Pierre -- 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/