Re: Extending cygwin's process table

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:30:10PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>	sounds good, If ps can give the start time for a process then it
>won't cause any grief for me. If there is no way for me to tell the
>order processes are launched in though, that could be difficult.

Yes.  The start time is stored now and I would not remove this.  I could
add an option to ps to sort the processes by start time, too.

I didn't make it clear that the reason that the pids would look like this
is that Windows is very random in its pid assignment.

cgf

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf@cygnus.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, 19 July 2000 1:43 PM
>To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
>Subject: Extending cygwin's process table
>
>
>I am planning on revamping cygwin's process table for version 1.1.4.
>I hope to make process creation a little faster and to also allow many
>more cygwin processes.
>
>I'm also toying with trying to more closely tie cygwin pids to windows
>pids.
>
>Is anyone going to be bothered if pid creation is not monotonic?  By
>that I mean, parent pid 1000 may not create child pid 1001.  It may
>create child pid 27.
>
>It may still not be feasible to use cygwin pids as windows pids
>(possibly because I don't believe that pid 1 is special to windows) but
>I thought I'd give this a try anyway unless there is something that I'm
>missing.
>
>cgf
>
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