Re: poslib port for Win32 platforms?

["Henrique Manela" <heman@...>]

I don't tink you need to know the kernel from the inside
to implement ppid.
What you need is the "Platform SDK",

Take a look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/perfmon/too
lhelp_6tev.asp



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Ringe" <dirk.ringe@gmx.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:43 AM
Subject: RE: poslib port for Win32 platforms?


> The sysinternals guys are famous for knowing the windows nt kernel from
the
> inside out (without ever having seen the source!). Many of their tools
> install device drivers to get all the needed information.
> But that doesn't mean that there in not a valid call in user mode to get
> this information.
>
> Dirk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
> [mailto:owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br]On Behalf Of Henrique Manela
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: poslib port for Win32 platforms?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Burgess" <david@spinifex.net>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:31 AM
> Subject: Re: poslib port for Win32 platforms?
>
>
> > A few are not possible, I know of no way of getting a
> > parent pid. Most of the PROCAUTH functions become
> > simple stubs , the FILE functions I have except for link.
>
> But, there must be some way to do it, since there are
> programs tha list the hole process hierachy available from
> microsoft and other sources (Sysinternals, www.sysinternals.com)
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Antonio E. Scuri" <scuri@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:22 PM
> > Subject: Re: poslib port for Win32 platforms?
> >
> >
> > >
> > >    Last time I tried I stop on the following functions:
> > >
> > > TIME
> > >       times
> > >
> > > SYSCONF
> > >      uname
> > >      sysconf
> > >
> > > PROCAUTH
> > >      setuid
> > >      setgid
> > >      getpwnam
> > >      getpwuid
> > >      getgrnam
> > >      getgrgid
> > >      geteid
> > >      getgid
> > >      getuid
> > >      getpgrp
> > >      getppid
> > >      getpid
> > >
> > > FILE
> > >      opendir
> > >      readir
> > >      closedir
> > >      pathconf
> > >      fpathconf
> > >      link
> > >      chown
> > >
> > >    Because they do not have a direct map to Win32 functions, including
> > > MSVCRT.LIB.
> > >
> > >    I suggest to use Cygwin, or at least to copy their implementation
and
> > to
> > > keep poslib code intact as possible.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > scuri
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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