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 winreaper: command to monitor and annotate a process tree
 
 like https://github.com/Plagman/reaper but for windows
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+compile with:
+x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -o winreaper.exe winreaper.cpp -D_UNICODE -DUNICODE -municode -static