X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:45:06 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 'kill' cannot see other process but its own PID ? Message-ID: <20070329164506.GM6306@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20070329085036.GA26240@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mar 29 10:59, Jurgen Defurne wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU > Corinna Vinschen http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR >> On Mar 29 09:30, Jurgen Defurne wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I just discovered that 'kill' is not able to test (-0) for processes >> > which have been started from the cygwin environment, but >> > running as another user, in this case as a service (UID = 0). >> > [...] >> >> Depending on your user rights you might be unable to access the POSIX >> process information object created by Cygwin processes running in >> another session. This is a result of a change starting with Windows >> 2003 and XP 64 bit. The current solution in Cygwin is slighlty >> incorrect but we don't have a nice workaround so far. > > Ah, yes, and I am running... (drumroll) > > Windows 2003! > [...] I have checked in a patch to Cygwin which tries to workaround this problem. As soon as one process has been started by a user which has the privilege to create global shared memory (SYSTEM, Admins), you should be able to see all Cygwin processes in all sessions. Please give the next Cygwin developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/