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Re: PPID in ps -efW not accurate


On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> Worse, given the fact that Windows reuses PIDs quickly after a process
> died, this information can be totally wrong.

I was not aware Windows would reuse a PID when children of the
previous process still existed...

Thank you for the information

-- Erik

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