Re: Process command lines for Cygwin processes no longer viewable in Windows task manager as of Cygwin 1.7.21

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:21:31AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>On 7/25/2013 4:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jul 24 22:38, Tom Honermann wrote:
>>> My suspicion that this started with 1.7.21 is based on Corinna's
>>> comments in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00343.html and
>>> other anecdotal evidence of new problems occurring as of that
>>> release.
>>
>> This is by design now as described in the aforementioned posting.  If
>> you want to see the command line of a Cygwin application called by
>> another Cygwin application, see /proc/$pid/cmdline.
>
>Would a patch to restore the previous operation based on a $CYGWIN 
>variable setting be acceptable?

I actually had the same thought and have a patch waiting for Corinna's
comment sitting in my sandbox.

cgf

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