Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Kamen TOMOV Subject: Re: howto register process Date: 12 Nov 2004 14:40:18 +0200 Organization: CYBUILD Lines: 21 Message-ID: <873bzfdyvh.fsf@zlatenlist.homelinux.net> References: <87mzxoveei.fsf@zlatenlist.homelinux.net> <87vfccw8f5.fsf@zlatenlist.homelinux.net> <20041111182839.GE14312@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <87k6ssw7ub.fsf@zlatenlist.homelinux.net> <419403DF.712E332F@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212-104-100-183.cable.evrocom.net X-Home-Page: http://www.cybuild.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > Kamen TOMOV wrote: > > > The parent process is started as a windows server. Then it > > executes cygwin's fork. When I try to kill any of these with > > kill() it returns "No such pid". > > Are you sure you're not confusing Cygwin PIDs with Win32 PIDs? In > order to make the fork() magic work, Cygwin maintains its own PIDs > in parallel to the actual windows PID. All the Cygwin functions > ... Thanks Brian. Yes I am sure I'm not confusing them. I tryed a function that is part of the cygwin's API. It is called cygwin_winpid_to_pid to get the cygwin's PID but it returns -1 on pids which does not correspond to a cygwin pid. Regards, -- Kamen TOMOV -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/