From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christopher Jones" To: Heribert Dahms , "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.1.0 gdb troubles Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 06:02:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 2000-04/msg00351.html Title: RE: Cygwin 1.1.0 gdb troubles > -----Original Message----- > From: Heribert Dahms [ mailto:heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de ] > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 6:02 PM > To: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com' > Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.1.0 gdb troubles > > > Hi Chris, > > it's easy, but is there a guarantee that the format dosen't change? > I remember man ps from HP-UX 10.20 under WARNINGS: > >       Users of ps must not rely on the exact field widths and > spacing of > its >       output, as these will vary depending on the system, the > release of >       HP-UX, and the data to be displayed. > Seems like it would make more sense to at least hide these cygwin pids and let users always use windows pids for ps, kill, $$ in a shell, etc.  So the PID and PPID values would be the real windows values and cygwin pids would disappear into the internals somewhere... probably a lookup table if you really need to have them still.  Something like this would be more seemless, wouldn't it? Brian