Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it> writes:
> $ ps > PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND > 2648 1 2648 2648 ? 1001 12:01:38 /usr/bin/mintty > 3724 2648 3724 2012 pty0 1001 12:01:38 /usr/bin/bash > 3176 3724 3176 3832 pty0 1001 12:02:14 /usr/bin/ps > 1904 2648 2648 1760 ? 1001 12:01:41 > /usr/bin/mintty <defunct> > > Why that "defunct" process? I don't remember having seen that before on > my old Cygwin32 installation. Hi, it looks like the cygwin process handling becomes more unix like :-) in unix exach process has an entry in the process list unless its parent has do a wait call on it to get the information abouit process termination. if the parent process teminates the init process will become the new parent and will do this wait if not already done -- 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
