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From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 13:47:29 -0400
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Subject: Re: PPID in ps -efW not accurate
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On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> Worse, given the fact that Windows reuses PIDs quickly after a process
> died, this information can be totally wrong.

I was not aware Windows would reuse a PID when children of the
previous process still existed...

Thank you for the information

-- Erik

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