pid confusion and pstree

Jason Pyeron jpyeron@pdinc.us
Thu Aug 4 19:53:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>
>> sorry if this wraps.
>>
>> what is my WINPID for the current bash?
>>
>> [jpyeron@mrlaptop mysql-4.1.13.new]$ ps -W | head -1 && ps -W | grep bash && pstree -Ahup
>>       PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
>> I    2356       1    2356       2356  con 1003   Jul 31 /usr/bin/bash
>>       260       0       0        260    ?    0   Aug  3 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
>>       484       0       0        484    ?    0   Aug  3 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
>>      3004       0       0       3004    ?    0   Aug  3 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
>>       456       0       0        456    ?    0   Aug  3 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
>>
>> ?(1)-+-bash(2356,jpyeron)
>>      |-bash(1516,mkruger)---mysql(476)
>>      `-cygrunsrv(3616,SYSTEM)---sshd(2956)-+-sshd(2852)---bash(2544,jpyeron)---mysql(236)
>>                                            |-sshd(3884)---bash(928,jpyeron)
>>                                            `-sshd(228)---bash(1592,jpyeron)-+-pico(2872)
>>                                                                             `-pstree(2348)
>>
>> [jpyeron@mrlaptop mysql-4.1.13.new]$ echo $$
>> 1592
>
> "ps -W" may not be aware of the Cygwin PID for some processes.
> How about "/bin/ps | head -1 && /bin/ps -a | grep $$" instead?
Windows taskmanager shows 456, which I found to be the correct pid for 
bash(1592) / echo $$

there was no taskmanager pid 1592 either


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