On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:12:31PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >I'm seeing something funny. While trying to build a large program on >Cygwin using cl.exe (i.e. I am building a non-Cygwin app; just using >Cygwin to drive 'make'), every now and then, cl.exe hangs. Before you >tell me I'm on the wrong list :-), here's the funny part. If I do 'ps' >in Cygwin, I can see the 'cl' process, along with its WINPID. However, >it doesn't show up in task manager! Also, there are about five processes >that are clearly Cygwin processes (bash.exe or sh.exe) that do NOT show >up in Cygwin's 'ps'. > >Is there any logic to this that I'm missing?
Yes. Windows doesn't implement the exec* family of linux system calls so cygwin has to kludge it. cgf -- 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/
