[PATCH] Cygwin: pipe: Give up to use query_hdl for non-cygwin apps.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  4 16:45, ASSI wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Right you are.  We always said that independent Cygwin installations
> > are supposed to *stay* independent.
> >
> > Keep in mind that they don't share the same shared objects in the native
> > NT namespace and they don't know of each other.  It's not only the
> > process table but also in-use FIFO stuff, pty info, etc.
> 
> What I was getting at is that a process not showing up in the process
> list in one Cygwin installation doesn't automatically mean it's a native
> Windows process, it could be a process started by an independent Cygwin
> installation.  So this way of checking for "native" Windows processes
> may or may not do what was originally intended.

But that was my point. A "foreign" Cygwin process from another
installation is not a Cygwin process.  Lots of interoperability
just won't work, so it's basically a native process.


Corinna