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Re: Help understanding process tree


On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:28:05AM -0700, Earl Chew wrote:
>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

Right.  cmd is a non-cygwin program so it needs a cygwin stub to handle
being "execed".  sleep is a cygwin program and does not require any
hand holding.

cgf

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