cygwin 1.5.0-1 forked off child processes have open handles to non-existant processes

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak]

OK, I see

Thanx :)

rlc

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:48:21PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> >I was just walking my process tree with the process explorer when I saw
> >the cron process had an open handle to a non-existant process
> >(presumably its parent).
> 
> That is correct.  It is working as designed.  It has always done this.
> It keeps a handle open to the process so that the pid of the original
> process will not be reused.  It also keeps several process handles open
> so that pids will not be reused too quickly as that confuses bash.
> 
> cgf
> 
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