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Re: pstree on windows xp - find process spawned from windows process
On Apr 24 00:27, nachum wrote:
> Regarding forking - you can see from my first post that bitgen is spawning a
> new process / PID and there is no way that I've found within cygwin to
> identify which program is the parent of the new fork. PID 504 is the new
Sure. It's a native Windows process, not a Cygwin process. For Cygwin
to keep track of processes the parent has to call the POSIX functions
fork/exec, not the native Windows call CreateProcess. The Win32 API has
no functions to identify a parent/child relationship between processes,
btw.
Corinna
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