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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:10:01 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Dec 18 11:54, Warren Young wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com=
> wrote:
>=20
> > On Dec 18 11:40, Warren Young wrote:
> >> On Dec 18, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin.=
com> wrote:
> >>=20
> >>> On Dec 18 10:26, Warren Young wrote:
> >>>>=20
> >>>> ...Cygwin doesn=E2=80=99t do something similar?
> >>>=20
> >>> Cygwin isn't a kernel and the process
> >>> information is kept in shared memory regions held by the parent proce=
ss
> >>> and the process itself.  This model has limitations you don't have on=
 a
> >>> real kernel.
> >>=20
> >> I=E2=80=99m aware of that, but can=E2=80=99t the DLL see both the birt=
h and death of
> >> every Cygwin process?  Birth via either DllMain() or execvp(2), and
> >> death via one of the methods here:
> >=20
> > Aren't we talking about fetching info from non-Cygwin processes?
>=20
> Of course.  But if you keep a table of all Cygwin processes, you can
> tell whether you=E2=80=99re being asked for info for a native process vs a
> Cygwin one, and handle <defunct> differently for the two cases.

That may be possible, but it's just not implemented.  Under the hood,
the process your seeing in /proc is not really the native Windows
process, but rather a Cygwin process stub.  The stub has a process info
shared mem region, but it's essentially defunct, the only task it's
handling is to wait for the non-Cygwin process to exit.  It may be
possible to add functionality to the stub process, but given that the
actually running process is a non-Cygwin process, it will be fairly
limited.  And, seriously, there was just no reason to put that much
work into bookkeeping for native processes.


Corinna

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