ps questions

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 18 18:51:00 GMT 2014


On Dec 18 11:40, Warren Young wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 18 10:26, Warren Young wrote:
> >> 
> >> ...Cygwin doesn’t do something similar?
> > 
> > Cygwin isn't a kernel and the process
> > information is kept in shared memory regions held by the parent process
> > and the process itself.  This model has limitations you don't have on a
> > real kernel.
> 
> I’m aware of that, but can’t the DLL see both the birth and death of
> every Cygwin process?  Birth via either DllMain() or execvp(2), and
> death via one of the methods here:

Aren't we talking about fetching info from non-Cygwin processes?


Corinna

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