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Re: problems in Perl process management
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:11:23PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
> Can you confirm whether your patch addresses a problem Reini reported your
> thread in Feb? It was this message:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00224.html
> ...where Reini said:
> > > But the cygwin pid's seem to be wrong.
> > > Some cygwin processes are not detected as such, so the pids are
> > > listed as winpid's. And fname is printed as windows path for
> > > those processes, though it should be printed as cygwin path.
> > > I'll complain upstream.
>
> My problem is similar - in Cygwin, Proc::ProcessTable reports some PIDs as
> WINPIDs instead of Cygwin PIDs.
No, my patch does nothing for Proc::ProcessTable; it just provides access
to the pid conversion functions from perl.
> In terms of my testcase (attached to my first email), the effect is that the
> get_pids method in Proc::Killfam.pm does not recurse down all descendant
> processes due to inaccurate PID reporting by Proc::ProcessTable.
>
> > > > ActiveState perl is a windows program. You can't send cygwin (aka
> > unix)
> > > > signals to a windows proram.
> > > This should be possible if the ActiPerl Windows executable was executed
> > from
> > > a Cygwin terminal -- 'ps' shows it running and 'kill -9' should kill it.
> >
> > ? "This should be possible" meaning what? You indeed can't send cygwin
> > signals (which AIUIkill -9 is not) to windows programs.
>
> What is 'AIUIkill'? Did you mean 'kill -9'? Isn't SIGKILL a Unix signal? The
> context of the original discussion was about killing processes by sending a
> SIGKILL (please see: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00550.html )
There was supposed to be a space after AIUI (as I understand it).
As I understand it, kill -9 does not send a signal, and certainly not to a
windows program.
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