Re: pid_t on 64-bit Windows

[Oberzalek Martin]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 24.08.2020, 01:30 +0200 schrieb Bruno Haible:
> On 64-bit Windows, pid_t needs to be 64-bit large, i.e. intptr_t or 'long long'or
> '__int64'.


> This is because the return type of _spawnv* (when invoked with _P_NOWAIT) and
> the argument of the _cwait function are 'intptr_t' (see [1][2]: "The return
> value from an asynchronous _spawnvp or _wspawnvp (_P_NOWAIT or _P_NOWAITO
> specified for mode) is the process handle."


_spawnvp(), or _wspawnvp() are not returning a pid. It is a process handle.

        intptr_t ret = _spawnvp( _P_NOWAIT, argv[2], args );
        DWORD pid = GetProcessId( (HANDLE)ret );
        printf( "ret: %d pid: %d\n", (int)ret, (int)pid );

GetProcessId() returns a DWORD as GetCurrentProcessId() does

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreads
api-getprocessid
[4] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreads
api-getcurrentprocessid

So I guess pit_t should be defined as int, or DWORD, or int32_t

> On mingw, this is already the case. But on MSVC (and MSVC/clang), the 'pid_t'
> type is nowhere defined. In this case, gnulib defines it through config.h.


> [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/spawnvp-wspawnvp
> [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/cwait


Regards, Martin

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