From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: getpid() problems 23 Feb 1997 03:54:49 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC2186.BDE00240.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'assini@kamus.it'" Encoding: 20 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Pasqualino Assini wrote: > I tried the getpid() function under winNT 4.0 using beta 17.1 > > The problem is that the pid that getpid() returns it's not the same as > that shown by the Task Manager. > > Any suggestion ? Cygwin.dll maintains its own process table. > > By the way, does anyone know how to check if a process with a given pid > is alive ? If You are interesting in cygwin's pid, you may use ps command from cygnus package. Pipe ps output to awk input. -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".