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On Apr 24 00:27, nachum wrote:
> Regarding forking - you can see from my first post that bitgen is spawning a
> new process / PID and there is no way that I've found within cygwin to
> identify which program is the parent of the new fork. PID 504 is the new

Sure.  It's a native Windows process, not a Cygwin process.  For Cygwin
to keep track of processes the parent has to call the POSIX functions
fork/exec, not the native Windows call CreateProcess.  The Win32 API has
no functions to identify a parent/child relationship between processes,
btw.


Corinna

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