On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:46:24PM -0500, Paul Townsend wrote: >In the > >http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00477.html > >message, I found > >- Two changes in the `ps -W' output. `ps -W' now prints all processes on > the machine when running under an (elevated) administrator account, > not only the processes in the current session. > >Shouldn't the above restriction be documented in the `ps' man page? > >Question1 - why the "administrative" restriction? The normal user seems >to be able to run the Task Manager as him/herself and all of the running >processes are listed. Is there a silent privilege escalation there >somewhere in the Task Manager process that allows the "full" listing? >I do note that the Task Manager seems to be able to kill just about any >process. > >Question2 - the UID of the Windows processes is listed as 0 in the >`ps -W' output so is there a way to acquire and print it? Task Manager >does know the owner so there must be a Windows function to get it.
I'm sure there is but I doubt that anyone is particularly interested in adding this functionality. >Question3 - the PPID of the Windows process is listed as 0 also. I did >find some functions at Microsoft that could be used for that purpose. >Are they available within the Cygwin code? No. The listing of windows processes in Cygwin ps is basically "as-is". What you see is what you get. If you are looking for a robust command-line utility for listing Windows processes, I'm sure there are better tools than Cygwin's ps. cgf -- 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
