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

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] wrote:

On 10/10/2010 9:20 AM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

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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."