Extending cygwin's process table

Wed Jul 19 14:29:00 GMT 2000

Hi Chris,
I don't bother.
I dunno if PID 1is special to NT, but my System process is currently 2,
FWIW.
In case of a problematic PID assigned, perhaps retry creating another
process first, then terminate the original?
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Faylor [SMTP:cgf@cygnus.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 19, 2000 05:43
> To:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject:	Extending cygwin's process table
>> I am planning on revamping cygwin's process table for version 1.1.4.
> I hope to make process creation a little faster and to also allow many
> more cygwin processes.
>> I'm also toying with trying to more closely tie cygwin pids to windows
> pids.
>> Is anyone going to be bothered if pid creation is not monotonic? By
> that I mean, parent pid 1000 may not create child pid 1001. It may
> create child pid 27.
>> It may still not be feasible to use cygwin pids as windows pids
> (possibly because I don't believe that pid 1 is special to windows)
> but
> I thought I'd give this a try anyway unless there is something that
> I'm
> missing.
>> cgf
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