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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:21:17 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bug report - kill f || plea for help
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In-Reply-To: <017301c0af59$3d35f3b0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:12:16PM +1100

On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:12:16PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>It's pretty simple:
>>
>>pinfo p (pid);
>>
>>>The external_pinfo struct contains what I need, so if it's easier to
>>>get that that, that's fine (and thats why I grabbed the code from
>>>kill).
>>
>>The external_pinfo struct is intended for external use.  It's not
>>intended to be called from inside cygwin.
>
>can pinfo p (pid) return information on non-cygwin processes?  It would
>really be neat for things like renice to affect non-cygwin programs as
>well...

No.  pinfo is for manipulating the pids of cygwin processes.  Most of the
time these are != to windows pids, unfortunately, although they do represent
the windows pid of a forked child.

cgf

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