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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: procps-3.2.8-1


On Oct 16 19:33, Kurt Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I took over maintainership for the procps package, which hadn't been
> > updated since 2007.  I now update the package to the last procps package
> > 3.2.8 from 2009, added a few tweaks, and especially built it for 32 and
> > (tada!) 64 bit.
> > 
> > Please note that with the current Cygwin 1.7.25, procps -f/-l will print
> > two question marks in place of the controlling tty for processes which
> > don't have a controlling tty.  Usually it should only print a single
> > question mark in this case, but the reason here is a minor bug in the
> > Cygwin DLL which will be fixed in the next release.  I hope that's not
> > too disturbing for the time being.
> > 
> > Have fun,
> > Corinna
> 
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> could you have a look on the formatting when displaying a sid column, i. e.
> 
> $> procps -eo user,pid,ppid,pgrp,tty,stime,cputime,sid,cmd
> 
> if now setsid is done, the -1 is used, which is correct displayed in
>  /proc/*/sid
> but displayed as unsigned value in procps which reads as 4294967295 and 
> thus will break the formatting of output.
> 
> Or would there be a chance to implement sid handling during
> process creation, initialize the sid to pid if there is no one
> inherited by parent which should only occure if a cygwin program
> is called by a windows program, and always inherit it if the parent
> is a cygwin process ?

Yeah.  I'm wondering why our process sid is -1 at all.  This never
occurs on Linux, afaics.

I'll investigate.  Thanks for the heads up.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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