> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Kamen TOMOV > Sent: 11 November 2004 11:01 > To: cygwin > Subject: howto register process > > Hi, > > I have an application that is created to work on Unix but it is > supposed to run on Windows as well. The problem is that we have a > daemon that spawns a few children and later it needs to kill them. The > parent process is supposed to communicate with its children by signals > and to eventually terminate them. I would like to use kill(pid, > signal) to kill the processes because they rely on the signals > mechanizm. > > The problem is that kill returns "not such pid". Is there a way to > register a process in the cygwin process table so that later be able > to kill it with kill()? TIA.
You can't kill a windows process with cygwin kill. Presumably your software is using the windows native functions to spawn child processes? That's not necessary: cygwin gives you unix syscalls on windows. If you used the standard posix functions (fork/exec/etc) to start the children, kill would work fine on them, and you'd have a lot more common code and a lot less differences to keep track of between your unix and 'doze versions of your code. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/