TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.4
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 6 09:02:00 GMT 2019
On Feb 5 16:31, L A Walsh wrote:
> On 2/1/2019 11:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > - Cygwin PIDs have been decoupled from Windows PID. Cygwin PIDs are
> > now incrementally dealt in the range from 2 up to 65535, POSIX-like.
> >
> ----
> Posix like? Posix starts from '1' (usually for init), but
> never heard it limited to 65535 ---
It's just the current limit. Linux defaults to 32767, BSD to 99999.
PID 1 is the init process and the PID orphaned processes get their
parent PID set to 1. You don't want a real process in Cygwin get
this PID so it's skipped.
> Linux allows 32bits (I set it to 99,999) to keep it to 5 digits
> and uses /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max to adjust it.
Yes, but this is too much hassle for a start.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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