problems in Perl process management

[Reini Urban]

Sonam Chauhan schrieb:
> Reini - Thanks for replying man.
>>I didn't complain yet upstream at rt.cpan.org because I wanted to wait
>>for our 5.8.7 release. But you can do it by yourself also, 
> 
> 
> OK, I'm not that talented, so I didn't try fixing this bug, but I did report
> it with a better testcase here:
> 	http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12840
> 
> 
>>or fix it in this module XS. It's really easy with the cygwin provided 
>>translation functions.
>>   See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00154.html
> 
> I had a look at your post, but out of curiosity, isn't it about adding
> functionality for looking up the WINPID from the Cygwin process ID? Is the
> fix really that simple? 

Yes, that simple.

> After all, Proc::ProcessTable misreports the PID and
> PPID only under certain conditions -- this would indicate a complex issue in
> Proc::ProcessTable XS code, right?

No. Just the translation is needed, but one has to specify somehow which 
  pid's he wants. The cygwin pid's or the winpid's.
Both have their merits and usecases.
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