Greetings, Sabuj Pattanayek! > Hi everyone,
> I'm experiencing a strange issue where ps does not find all the processes > if it's run from a top level junction to the main cygwin directory in cmd : > On an older windows install I had cygwin under c:\cygwin64 , this time I > used chocolatey to install it and it put it under c:\tools\cygwin. To keep > things consistent so as not to break users I decided to make a junction : > Directory of C:\ > 01/04/2018 03:01 PM <JUNCTION> cygwin64 [c:\tools\cygwin] > running ps from cygwin works fine : > $ ps -p 6376 > PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND > 6376 1 6376 5464 pty2 197608 23:52:31 > /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/cmd > however running it from the junctioned top level directory does not work : > C:\>c:\cygwin64\bin\ps -p 6376 > c:\cygwin64\bin\ps -p 6376 > PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND > but when launched via the actual path it works properly : > C:\>c:\tools\cygwin\bin\ps -p 6376 > c:\tools\cygwin\bin\ps -p 6376 > PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND > 6376 1 6376 5464 pty2 197608 23:52:31 > /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/cmd > any ideas what's causing this? I have no idea how did you do it, but I'm unable to see Windows processes like that without -W. []$ ps -p 7636 PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND []$ ps -Wp 7636 PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 7636 0 0 7636 ? 0 15:47:38 C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.exe -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, January 25, 2018 20:25:57 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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