On Thu, Nov 11 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:24:30PM +0200, Kamen TOMOV wrote: > >Thanks Dave. The thing is that the child processes get forked with > >a fork() invocation. What's more not only the child pids are > >invisible to cygwin, but also their parent is invisible. That is > >why I'm wondering isn't there a way to make them part of the > >processes that are visible by cygwin. My purpose is - to be able to > >kill them with kill() and to use the signal system. > > Cygwin processes created with fork() and/or exec() can, of course, > use cygwin signals and do show up in the process table. > > The Cygwin distribution wouldn't operate if this was not true. > > You need to provide a test case showing what you are trying to do, > i.e., http://cygwin.com/problems.html .
The parent process is started as a windows server. Then it executes cygwin's fork. When I try to kill any of these with kill() it returns "No such pid". Regards, -- Kamen TOMOV -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
