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Re: howto register process


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 .

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