Design mixed 32 and 64 bit systems.
Christopher Faylor
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Tue Dec 17 20:41:00 GMT 2013
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 04:05:51PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>It's a subtle distinction but there is no real table of Cygwin pids
>maintained by the DLL. Each process has a shared memory region
>associated with it that holds information like the parent pid. This
>shared memory region is not recognized between x86/x86_64.
Just a further clarification for anyone who's interested: There is
a table of child pids maintained by each process. So the DLL does
maintain a list of pids. It just doesn't maintain a list of all
known Cygwin processes.
cgf
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