In the http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00477.html
message, I found - Two changes in the `ps -W' output. `ps -W' now prints all processes on the machine when running under an (elevated) administrator account, not only the processes in the current session. Shouldn't the above restriction be documented in the `ps' man page? Question1 - why the "administrative" restriction? The normal user seems to be able to run the Task Manager as him/herself and all of the running processes are listed. Is there a silent privilege escalation there somewhere in the Task Manager process that allows the "full" listing? I do note that the Task Manager seems to be able to kill just about any process. Question2 - the UID of the Windows processes is listed as 0 in the `ps -W' output so is there a way to acquire and print it? Task Manager does know the owner so there must be a Windows function to get it. Question3 - the PPID of the Windows process is listed as 0 also. I did find some functions at Microsoft that could be used for that purpose. Are they available within the Cygwin code? I reference "Task Manager" but, unfortunately, its output is not easily parsed (:@{). -- Thanks, -- Paul Townsend -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple