[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.1.0-0.2

Takashi Yano takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
Mon Aug 19 15:20:00 GMT 2019


On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:00:40 +0200
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> As far as I can tell this is not a bug.  I added debug output and found
> that ps grabs the process list *before* bash execve's into cat.  So at
> the time ps gets the process list, process 1942 in your example is
> actually still bash.
> 
> If you call procps, which is slower than Cygwin's own ps, you tend
> to see cat more often in this scenario.

Sounds reasonable. I wonder why this does not occur in linux...

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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