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Re: 1.5.13:Is it difficult to make cygwin recycle pids when create new process?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:06:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: 1.5.13:Is it difficult to make cygwin recycle pids when create new process?
- References: <d2gufc$m8d$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 31 21:36, Merlin Ran wrote:
> see:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00657.html
>
> When start a new Windows process, the system attempt to recycle a previously
> used PID, so the maximam PID in the system is low. But when I invoke a
> command in Cygwin, the PID of new process always increase. It may not be a
> problem as long as the maximam PID doesn't exceed the limit, but
> unfortunately it will. As I discovered, my Win2000 Professional system's PID
> limit is a little more than 17000, many configure script I have run, such as
> mysql and net-snmp's, aborted because unsuccessfully fork().
>
> Why does Cygwin's fork() behave unlike native Windows, since it is based on
> CreateProcess()(http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC77)? I'v searched a
> post on why use two types of
> PID(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00139.html), does it matter?
Doesn't http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00169.html explain it?
Corinna
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