Cygwin Support

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Posting this on behalf of a user request I received directly via email. 

From: Yves Pouplard <yves.pouplard@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:50 PM
Subject: psutil and cygwin ?
To: jloden@gmail.com

Hi!

I am new in Python, so I have not been able to make psutil works in Cygwin,
but it would be fine if it would :)

fyi, Cygwin is a Linux environment that runs inside Windows, and I use it a
lot -- as many other people do, probably.

can you help?

thanks.

Yves Pouplard

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jlo...@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2010 at 1:17

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I looked briefly at this and it appears to be more complex than I had initially
hoped. Cygwin acts like a POSIX environment, but the system level code still 
needs to
be Windows-specific. Unfortunately this means that most of the code is similar 
to the
Windows codebase, but that the Cygwin version of Python doesn't know about 
things
like PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr which we use all over the place. Conversely, the 
/proc
system and sysctl() don't appear to be available under Cygwin so we can't use 
the
code from other unix-like systems. 

It's likely we'd need a separate cygwin C module specific to working with 
Cygwin,
based on the Windows code but with workarounds for things like
PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr() and any other issues that crop up. Opening this 
ticket as
an enhancement for a placeholder if/when we have a chance to look at this more 
in depth.

Original comment by jlo...@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2010 at 1:21

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Issue 87 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by jlo...@gmail.com on 12 May 2010 at 4:29

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I'm closing this out for now as it's unlikely we'll find time to look into this 
in the near future.

Original comment by g.rodola on 19 Jun 2010 at 6:14

• Changed state: WontFix