Re: [PATCH v3 05/14] mingw: use real pid

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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/10/2010 9:20 AM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>>
>> The Windows port so far used process handles as PID. However,
>> this does not work consistently with getpid.
>
> Perhaps this could be elaborated a bit to explain the interaction with
> getpid() and how it is causing problems for daemon mode. For the casual
> reader, it is not immediately obvious what is failing or why this patch is
> needed.
>

Good point. How about something like this?

"The Windows port so far used process handles as PID. However, this is
not consistent with what getpid returns.

PIDs are system-global identifiers, but process handles are local to a
process. Using PIDs instead of process handles allows for instance a
user to kill a hung process with the Task Manager, something that
would have been impossible with process handles."
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