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Subject:	Re: Parenthood seems to be lost when the parent is exeeced
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:58:53AM +0100, Laurent Najman wrote:
>The parenthood seems to be lost when the parent is execed.  Here is a
>sample code

Yes, it's a longstanding limitation of Cygwin that an execed process
does not remember the child processes associated with the previous pid.

Sorry.

cgf

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