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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:36:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: Process command lines for Cygwin processes no longer viewable in Windows task manager as of Cygwin 1.7.21
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On 07/25/2013 11:10 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:19:16AM -0400, Tom Honermann wrote:
>> On 07/25/2013 09:21 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> On 7/25/2013 4:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Jul 24 22:38, Tom Honermann wrote:
>>>>> My suspicion that this started with 1.7.21 is based on Corinna's
>>>>> comments in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00343.html and
>>>>> other anecdotal evidence of new problems occurring as of that
>>>>> release.
>>>>
>>>> This is by design now as described in the aforementioned posting.  If
>>>> you want to see the command line of a Cygwin application called by
>>>> another Cygwin application, see /proc/$pid/cmdline.
>>>
>>> Would a patch to restore the previous operation based on a $CYGWIN
>>> variable setting be acceptable?
>>
>> I think this change should be reverted.
>
> You were relying on a bug in Cygwin.

Regardless if this behavior was intentional or not, the ability to 
retrieve the process command line from non-Cygwin processes is crucial 
for me.  Please work with me on this to come up with a solution.

> Older versions of the DLL did not
> provide the full command line.  It was only after the bug entered into
> the source code that it did.  Not providing the windows command line is
> an optimization for Cygwin programs.

As far as I can tell, the command line has been provided to 
CreateProcess going back at least as far as the Cygwin 1.5.x releases.

Given the cost of starting a new process, it seems unlikely that 
omitting the full command line offers much of a performance improvement. 
  Was there something about the construction of the command line that 
was particularly expensive?  Perhaps that could be optimized instead?

>> In my case, I need to be able to retrieve the command line for a Cygwin
>> process from a non-Cygwin process.  Reading /proc/$pid/cmdline is not an
>> option in that case.  I depend on the ability to, for example,
>> differentiate gcc processes that are running based on their command line
>> options.
>>
>> Note that strace is currently broken as well.  Running it against a
>> 'make' invocation:
>
> It's not strace that's broken.  That's just a simple fix to the DLL.

Ok, the user experience is that strace is not working as expected.

Tom.


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