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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:27:51 -0700
From: Earl Chew <earl_chew AT agilent DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Help understanding process tree
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Earl Chew wrote:
> I'd like help understanding why Process Explorer shows cygwin
> child processes as orphans, but win32 child processes as children.
> 
> How is this so?

I think I've discovered the reason for this is that during
the fork/exec, the child that does the exec is discarded and
replaced with a new process that executes the new application.

Earl


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