On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 07:32:40PM +0200, Kamen TOMOV wrote: > > It's for sure that there are some things that are not quite clear, but > in a nutshell: > > We have a daemon compiled with cygwin's fork, kill, etc. > > 1st scenario: > > - the daemon gets started as a Windows service > - the daemon forks (calling the cygwin's version of fork()) and as a > result we have a few children. > > The facts: > > - neither the daemon, nor its children are seen by cygwins's ps.exe or > could be killed with kill.exe, or kill(). > > - calling cygwin_winpid_to_pid on the parent's pid or any of its > children's pid returns the error result: -1. > > 2nd scenario: > > - the daemon gets started from the bash's command line. > > The facts: > > - the daemon is seen in the list of processes given by ps.exe and > could be killed with kill.exe.
You have not provided the information requested in http://cygwin.com/problems.html, despite being asked. FWIW, what you describe would make sense if you are logged in under Terminal Services and you do not have the Create Global Name privilege. Pierre -- 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/