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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 00:48:04 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: problems in Perl process management
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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 02:41:28PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
>cgf wrote:
>>I don't believe I've ever heard anyone complaining about the way this
>>works in "ps -W" or in "all of the other programs" which use this.
>
>There's a first time for everything. 

I guess I'll wait for the second, third, and fourth time for everything
before I start getting really worried.

>>It seems to me that it would be a lot easier to work around in the perl
>>module.
>
>Can you suggest any other CW_...  query that would report on PIDs
>accurately?

CW_GETPINFO reports on PIDs accurately, AFAIK.

cgf

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