From: s2172184@cse.unsw.edu.au ("Ben Constable") Subject: ps and kill 6 Dec 1996 09:27:25 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <961206160527.5430.cygnus.gnu-win32@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Just used the mentioned utilities. Why is it that the cygnus utilities have to have a different process number? When you run ps you get something like this: PID PPID WIN32-PID UID COMMAND 1000 1000 44 500 c:\software\gnu\x86-cygwin32\H-i386-cygwin32\bin\bash.exe 1001 1000 158 500 c:\software\gnu\x86-cygwin32\H-i386-cygwin32\bin\ps.exe Why do we have 1000 and 1001 instead of 44 and 158? Since there are already utilities out there (such as those in the resource kit) which use these numbers, it makes sense to stick with them. Any reason to not use WIN32-PID's? Also, when I run who, I get: who: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory What kind of response is this? NT does not store user information in a file called /var/run/utmp. Maybe if we wrote a device driver which mapped a file of that name to a dump of current logged on users, it would work. Also, when I alt-tab to a command window with bash running, I get a 'T' entered into my window. Other people report similar things happening, although each person seems to have a different letter. I have not yet seen a reason for this on the list - is there an explanation? While I am sending mail to the list, I would like to voice my opinion that a project like this one will only start to work if two versions are made - one for NT and one for 95. NT is too different to use the same source set. What do people think of this? Ben Constable s2172184@cse.unsw.edu.au - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".