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Re: ps questions


On Dec 18 11:54, Warren Young wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 18 11:40, Warren Young wrote:
> >> On Dec 18, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Dec 18 10:26, Warren Young wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> ...Cygwin doesnât 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.
> >> 
> >> Iâm aware of that, but canât 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:
> > 
> > Aren't we talking about fetching info from non-Cygwin processes?
> 
> Of course.  But if you keep a table of all Cygwin processes, you can
> tell whether youâre 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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