Help understanding process tree

[Earl Chew]

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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