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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:39:54 +0100
Subject: Missing UID from "ps -W"
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Hi,

I try to use "ps -W" to monitor processes, but UID is 0 except for processes started in cygwin. Is it a bug or a feature?

14:13:50[siebel AT CRMDOCTRN1:~]$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.0 CRMDOCTRN1 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) 2012-02-05 12:36 i686 Cygwin

14:14:11[siebel AT CRMDOCTRN1:~]$ ps --version
ps (cygwin) 1.7.10
Show process statistics
Copyright (C) 1996 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

14:05:11[siebel AT CRMDOCTRN1:~]$ ps -Wf
     UID     PID    PPID  TTY        STIME COMMAND
  siebel    5116    6576 pty0     14:05:36 /usr/bin/ps
cyg_serv    7712    6808 ?          Mar  2 /usr/sbin/sshd
  siebel    6576    5028 pty0       Mar  2 /usr/bin/bash
cyg_serv    5028    7712 ?          Mar  2 /usr/sbin/sshd
cyg_serv    6808       1 ?          Mar  2 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
       0       4       0 ?          Jan 29 System
       0     456       0 ?          Jan 29 C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe
       0     536       0 ?          Jan 29 C:\Windows\System32\csrss.exe
       0     580       0 ?          Jan 29 C:\Windows\System32\csrss.exe
       0     588       0 ?          Jan 29 C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe
       0     624       0 ?          Jan 29 C:\Windows\System32\winlogon.exe
       0     660       0 ?          Jan 29 C:\Windows\System32\services.exe
       0     676       0 ?          Jan 29 C:\Windows\System32\lsass.exe
       0     684       0 ?          Jan 29 C:\Windows\System32\lsm.exe
       0     836       0 ?          Jan 29 C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe


Thanks,
András

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