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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:10:00 -0500
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Subject: Re: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) ps (cygwin) 1.11 - how do I display  the arguments to the processes?
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Larry W. Virden wrote:
> A developer has asked me to see if there is a way in Cygwin to get output more similar to Solaris or other Unix system ps commands.
> 
> He specifically needs to get information about a process, its pid, and the arguments passed to the process.
> 
> When I try the various flags for ps, I don't see any which displays the arguments.
> 
> 

 From the ps man page:

   Due to the limitations of simulating a POSIX  environment
   under Windows, there is little information to give.

I suspect that you're out of luck on this ...  Eliot Moss

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