Re Re: Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ?

Tue Feb 3 19:09:00 GMT 2004

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:44:32PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >FWIW, Cygwin's kill() understands Win32 PIDs, so you can at least skip
> >step 3. I suggest looking at Cygwin's implementation of /bin/kill (in CVS
> >as winsup/utils/kill.cc).
>> Sorry to contradict you again, Igor, but cygwin's kill understands win32
> pids only insofar as the win32 pid corresponds to a cygwin pid. You
> can't use cygwin's kill() to kill a pure win32 process. It only works
> on cygwin processes. In particular, if a process has been exec()ed its
> cygwin pid will be that of the original process but its actual windows
> pid will be different.
>> The kill.exe program has special logic for killing non-cygwin pids when
> -f is specified. This is not supported by the cygwin DLL, however.
>> cgf

Thanks, I appreciate the correction. I'll just shut up now... :-)
	Igor
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