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'kill' cannot see other process but its own PID ?
- From: Jurgen Defurne <jurgen dot defurne at philips dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:30:56 +0200
- Subject: 'kill' cannot see other process but its own PID ?
Hello,
I just discovered that 'kill' is not able to test (-0) for processes
which have been started from the cygwin environment, but
running as another user, in this case as a service (UID = 0).
Is this a problem stemming from the cygwin environment
or is it due to Windows itself ?
As a workaround, it seems only parsing the output from
'ps -Wl' could give me the desired functionality, which
is testing if a certain process, of which the PID is known,
is still running or not.
Does anyone have maybe other ideas I might have
missed ?
Regards,
Jurgen
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