OK, I see Thanx :)
rlc On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:48:21PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >I was just walking my process tree with the process explorer when I saw > >the cron process had an open handle to a non-existant process > >(presumably its parent). > > That is correct. It is working as designed. It has always done this. > It keeps a handle open to the process so that the pid of the original > process will not be reused. It also keeps several process handles open > so that pids will not be reused too quickly as that confuses bash. > > 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/ > -- 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/