pid confusion and pstree (Attn: User's Guide maintainer)

[Jason Pyeron]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>
> See "man ps" and <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html#ps>.
>
> -W means "all Windows processes".  IIRC, the "-a" is ignored when -W is
> specified.
> HTH,
> 	Igor
> P.S. Note to the UG maintainer: Joshua, there's a typo in the description
> of "ps" on the above referenced page: "synonomous" should be "synonymous".
>

I did read the man page for ps, first, before posting.

I does not say that the cygwin pid will be changed to the windows pid 
for cygwin processes. It does indicate for windows processes the PID is 
the same as the WINPID and can be used in kill -f.

nor does it mention the conflict between -a and -W

from ps man page:


        -a, --all
               show processes of all users

        -W, --windows
               show windows as well as cygwin processes


-jason

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