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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:39:25 -0400
To: "Ryan T. Sammartino" <ryants@shaw.ca>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
Subject: Re: ps and linking to cygwin.dll
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At 12:28 PM 4/24/2002, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:19:06PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > At 06:51 PM 4/23/2002, you wrote:
> > 
> > >Am I correct in stating that the only processes that ps will list are
> > >processes that are linked to cygwin.dll?
> > 
> > 
> > No.  See 'ps -h'.
>
>
>$ ps -h
>ps: unknown option -- h
>
>
>Pretty sure I have the latest greatest "ps".  "man ps" says:
>
>        The  ps program gives the status of all  the  Cygwin  pro-
>        cesses running on the system (ps = "process status"). 
>
>but that doesn't mean *just* Cygwin processes, and it isn't 100% clear
>what a "Cygwin process" is.
>
>
>(Oh wait... now I see the slight ambiguity in my question... I should
>have said "... that 'ps -a' will list..." explicitly excluding the -W
>option.)


OK, I didn't notice that '-h' isn't a valid option either.  The important 
part is that it lists the options.  Doesn't this answer your question?



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