cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 29 04:42, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to kill a process in a way that CYGWIN's own kill utility does
> with an option -f, and for that, given CYGWIN's PID, I need to figure
> out native Windows PID of the victim.
> 
> kill does basically the following (I simplified):
> 
> p = (external_pinfo *) cygwin_internal (CW_GETPINFO_FULL, pid);
> DWORD dwpid = p->dwProcessId;
> 
> while there's a CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID enum for cygwin_internal,
> which supposedly returns a Windows PID right away.
> 
> Is there any difference between the two in finding out the PID?

If you're only after the windows pid, CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID is
sufficient.


Corinna

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