From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: pipe: Give up to use query_hdl for non-cygwin apps.
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 18:38:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZeYG_11UfRTLzit1@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edcqgfwc.fsf@>
On Mar 4 16:45, ASSI wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Right you are. We always said that independent Cygwin installations
> > are supposed to *stay* independent.
> >
> > Keep in mind that they don't share the same shared objects in the native
> > NT namespace and they don't know of each other. It's not only the
> > process table but also in-use FIFO stuff, pty info, etc.
>
> What I was getting at is that a process not showing up in the process
> list in one Cygwin installation doesn't automatically mean it's a native
> Windows process, it could be a process started by an independent Cygwin
> installation. So this way of checking for "native" Windows processes
> may or may not do what was originally intended.
But that was my point. A "foreign" Cygwin process from another
installation is not a Cygwin process. Lots of interoperability
just won't work, so it's basically a native process.
Corinna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-04 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-03 5:09 Takashi Yano
2024-03-03 9:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2024-03-03 10:21 ` Takashi Yano
2024-03-03 10:39 ` ASSI
2024-03-03 11:36 ` Takashi Yano
2024-03-04 10:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-04 15:45 ` ASSI
2024-03-04 17:38 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2024-03-05 0:06 ` Takashi Yano
2024-03-05 10:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-05 14:47 ` Takashi Yano
2024-03-05 16:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-05 18:42 ` Takashi Yano
2024-03-05 18:46 ` Takashi Yano
2024-03-06 12:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
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