'kill' cannot see other process but its own PID ?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Mar 29 08:50:00 GMT 2007
On Mar 29 09:30, Jurgen Defurne wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just discovered that 'kill' is not able to test (-0) for processes
> which have been started from the cygwin environment, but
> running as another user, in this case as a service (UID = 0).
>
> Is this a problem stemming from the cygwin environment
> or is it due to Windows itself ?
>
> As a workaround, it seems only parsing the output from
> 'ps -Wl' could give me the desired functionality, which
> is testing if a certain process, of which the PID is known,
> is still running or not.
>
> Does anyone have maybe other ideas I might have
> missed ?
Depending on your user rights you might be unable to access the POSIX
process information object created by Cygwin processes running in
another session. This is a result of a change starting with Windows
2003 and XP 64 bit. The current solution in Cygwin is slighlty
incorrect but we don't have a nice workaround so far.
Corinna
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