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: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131217204142.GC1614@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131202210551.GA2497@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 04:05:51PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>It's a subtle distinction but there is no real table of Cygwin pids
>maintained by the DLL. Each process has a shared memory region
>associated with it that holds information like the parent pid. This
>shared memory region is not recognized between x86/x86_64.
Just a further clarification for anyone who's interested: There is
a table of child pids maintained by each process. So the DLL does
maintain a list of pids. It just doesn't maintain a list of all
known Cygwin processes.
cgf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-17 20:41 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
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 [this message]
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