Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:11:30PM -0500, Dave Steenburgh wrote:
Well, now I understand why I occasionally see more instances of bash
in the task manager than I was expecting.  However, now I have to ask
why the shim doesn't appear [plainly] with ps:

    4540       1    4540       4540    0 1003 11:48:08 /usr/bin/bash
    5656    4540    5656       4756    0 1003 11:48:35
/cygdrive/f/WINDOWS/system32/notepad

Because that's the way ps works.  It shows cygwin pids.  If you really
want to see the shim process you do have to use the task manager.

If you want to get a much better picture of what's happening, do:

0. Task Manager--forgid-da-boud-dit! It's so, "just barely"!

1. Download, install, & start "Process Explorer v11.32" (procexp.exe) from:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

2. Bring up a Cygwin shell and execute "notepad" -- leave them be.

3. Bring up another Cygwin shell and execute "ps"

Now you can see the various Cygwin process'/shim relationships and attributes, graphically, in "Process Explorer" and how the PIDs n WIDS n such from the "ps" listing relate.

It's pretty cool!

Lowell Anderson


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