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From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 71477@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71477: 30.0.50; Lock files are not deleted on Windows 98
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:34:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tthz8uxt.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861q537htm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:03:01 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> OK, but could you provide some additional details, so I could
> understand the issue better?  What kind of negative values do you get
> from getpid on Windows 98, and what does the system show as the PID of
> that process?  Is the value really such a large positive number that
> its MSB is set?

The value of getpid was -1859765, but I did not attempt to read the PID
manually with GetCurrentProcessID or cross-check it against the OS's
equivalent of ps, if there exists one at all.

> According to my records, _getpid just calls GetCurrentProcessId and
> returns the value as an int.  So for _getpid to return a negative
> value, GetCurrentProcessId should return a very large positive value,
> I think.

There's a screenshot on this forum that, if it is to be trusted,
demonstrates that PIDs are indeed of this scale on Windows 9X:

  https://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?308830-Task-Manager-For-Windows-98





  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-11 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87r0d4bzut.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2024-06-10 15:07 ` bug#71477: 30.0.50; Lock files are not deleted on Windows 98 Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-10 17:44   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <87ikygb6hp.fsf@yahoo.com>
2024-06-11  6:47       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <87bk47c4cd.fsf@yahoo.com>
2024-06-11  7:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <871q53c2ur.fsf@yahoo.com>
2024-06-11  8:28               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                 ` <87jzivamzp.fsf@yahoo.com>
2024-06-11 13:03                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-11 13:34                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-06-12  8:25                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-12 16:07                     ` Paul Eggert
2024-06-12 17:10                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-12 17:57                         ` Paul Eggert
2024-06-13  8:06                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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