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Re: Help understanding process tree


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

How is this so?

I think I've discovered the reason for this is that during the fork/exec, the child that does the exec is discarded and replaced with a new process that executes the new application.

Earl


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