Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > One question though, would it be possible to return executable name > > instead of <defunct> for non-Cygwin processes? > > That should work, it just needs implementing. > > However, I'm just mulling over another idea. It's probably even > possible to return the comand line and cwd, as long as the calling > process (cat) has permission to open a handle to the requested process. > I'll toy around with this a bit...
Does that mean that top would finally be able to show Windows processes as well? On another front, I've recently uüstreamed a patch for a Perl distribution to use /proc/pid/statm because ps from Cygwin doesn't implement a switch to show the vmsize information. The maintainer of said distribution said he was expecting a BSD ps before anything else and didn't like the Linux /proc interface a lot, but it seems we might want to move to a more modern ps implementation (Linux ps uses /proc under the hood, AFAIK) when the underlying functionality in Cygwin has that covered. Regards, Achim
