From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.4
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190206090332.GX3532@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1044696418.20190206033644@yandex.ru>
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On Feb 6 03:36, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>
> > Changes from 3.0.0-0.3:
>
> > - Cygwin PIDs have been decoupled from Windows PID. Cygwin PIDs are
> > now incrementally dealt in the range from 2 up to 65535, POSIX-like.
>
> I don't quite get it.
> What's the rationale? Why not just use system PID's?
Using system PIDs requires to keep process handles open for the
only reason so they are not too quickly reused by Windows.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-06 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-01 19:37 Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-06 0:31 ` L A Walsh
2019-02-06 9:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-02-06 0:50 ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] " Andrey Repin
2019-02-06 9:03 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2019-02-06 9:54 ` Michael Haubenwallner
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