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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:33:41 -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: <20041112183341.GA184697@Worldnet>
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 06:11:08PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Kamen TOMOV
> > Sent: 12 November 2004 17:33
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
>   Ok, well if it isn't the terminal server thing, it's probably still perms.
> Administrator has lower privs than SYSTEM, so can't necessarily kill SYSTEM
> tasks (depending on ACL etc).

AFAIK all Cygwin processes (even those started by Windows) and their
subprocesses give full access to Administrators. If you observe that
this isn't true, please report it.

Pierre  

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