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Help understanding process tree


I'm working on a cygwin problem and have been looking at the Win32
process tree structure using Process Explorer from Sysinternals:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

I'd like help understanding why Process Explorer shows cygwin
child processes as orphans, but win32 child processes as children.

How is this so?

For example, if I start bash, then start cmd /c dir, I will see:

bash
  bash
    cmd /c dir

My reading of the code is that the 2nd bash is the fork-stub that is
waiting for cmd to complete.

Now, if I start sleep 30, I will see:

bash
sleep 30

Earl


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