Merlin Ran wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Doesn't http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00169.html explain >> it? >> > No. I learned why using two pids from the post, but it still doesn't > explain why winpid is always increasing.
It's probably a blessing for shells like 'bash' that it *does not* reuse pids though. > Since every process is created by CreateProcess() ultimately, why > doesn't it behave alike native windows process, which reuse the pid of > previously exited process? After consult msdn online, I haven't found > any parameters which can affect the selection of new process's pid. Good question. No clue :-). > I'm trying to build binutils 2.15: [snip] > After that whole OS become unstable. I've googled out that I am not > the only with such problems, but I didn't find solution :( Could > anyone help me? No expert here, just guessing. But try a reboot and run 'make' again. Doesn't it then start compiling files where it last left off? -- 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/