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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Design mixed 32 and 64 bit systems.
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131202195626.GC604@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <529CE0E4.4080804@etr-usa.com>

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 12:35:00PM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
>This happens because POSIX PIDs are in a table that lives in 
>cygwin1.dll's memory space, and because there are two DLLs, there are 
>two different PID tables.

Actually POSIX pids are Windows PIDs.  The distinction becomes fuzzy
after an exec, though, where the Cygwin PID continues to be the PID
of the process which previously exec'ed it.

cgf

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-02 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-27 20:13 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2013-11-27 22:17 ` JonY
2013-11-27 22:27   ` Christopher Faylor
2013-12-02 19:35 ` Warren Young
2013-12-02 19:56   ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2013-12-02 20:30     ` Warren Young
2013-12-02 20:44       ` Warren Young
2013-12-02 21:07       ` Christopher Faylor
2013-12-17 20:41         ` Christopher Faylor

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