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Subject: Re: ps questions
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On Dec 18, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

> On Dec 18 10:26, Warren Young wrote:
>> 
>> ...Cygwin doesn’t do something similar?
> 
> Cygwin isn't a kernel and the process
> information is kept in shared memory regions held by the parent process
> and the process itself.  This model has limitations you don't have on a
> real kernel.

I’m aware of that, but can’t the DLL see both the birth and death of every Cygwin process?  Birth via either DllMain() or execvp(2), and death via one of the methods here:

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4242469/
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