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Re: "Ghost" processes on Cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:26:52 -0400
- Subject: Re: "Ghost" processes on Cygwin
- References: <444FF04F.20109@tibco.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:12:31PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>I'm seeing something funny. While trying to build a large program on
>Cygwin using cl.exe (i.e. I am building a non-Cygwin app; just using
>Cygwin to drive 'make'), every now and then, cl.exe hangs. Before you
>tell me I'm on the wrong list :-), here's the funny part. If I do 'ps'
>in Cygwin, I can see the 'cl' process, along with its WINPID. However,
>it doesn't show up in task manager! Also, there are about five processes
>that are clearly Cygwin processes (bash.exe or sh.exe) that do NOT show
>up in Cygwin's 'ps'.
>
>Is there any logic to this that I'm missing?
Yes. Windows doesn't implement the exec* family of linux system calls
so cygwin has to kludge it.
cgf
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