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Corion recently told me that "under the Windows fork emulation, emulated forked children get negative PIDs". I don't know where this is documented but I believe him.

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Re^5: open (to read) and kill a pipe to a pipe
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 27, 2010 at 16:46 UTC
    That's true, but I don't see how it's relevant. He's passing a negative signal.

      My mistake, I thought you were asking about the other "it".

        Clarified by adding the text in parens.