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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:46:04 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: howto register process
Message-ID: <20041112174603.GA222609@Worldnet>
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 07:32:40PM +0200, Kamen TOMOV wrote:
> 
> It's for sure that there are some things that are not quite clear, but
> in a nutshell:
> 
> We have a daemon compiled with cygwin's fork, kill, etc.
> 
> 1st scenario: 
> 
> - the daemon gets started as a Windows service
> - the daemon forks (calling the cygwin's version of fork()) and as a
> result we have a few children.
> 
> The facts:
> 
> - neither the daemon, nor its children are seen by cygwins's ps.exe or
>   could be killed with kill.exe, or kill().
> 
> - calling cygwin_winpid_to_pid on the parent's pid or any of its
>   children's pid returns the error result: -1.
> 
> 2nd scenario: 
> 
> - the daemon gets started from the bash's command line.
> 
> The facts:
> 
> - the daemon is seen in the list of processes given by ps.exe and
>   could be killed with kill.exe.

You have not provided the information requested in
http://cygwin.com/problems.html, despite being asked.

FWIW, what you describe would make sense if you are logged in under
Terminal Services and you do not have the Create Global Name privilege.

Pierre

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