PPID in ps -efW not accurate

Erik Soderquist ErikSoderquist@gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 17:47:00 GMT 2017


On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> Worse, given the fact that Windows reuses PIDs quickly after a process
> died, this information can be totally wrong.

I was not aware Windows would reuse a PID when children of the
previous process still existed...

Thank you for the information

-- Erik

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple



More information about the Cygwin mailing list