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Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 2002 00:43:08 +0200
From:	=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
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To:	John Vincent <jpv50 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Cygwin Here power toy
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> The "exec" before the second invocation of /bin/bash means that
> this replaces the first bash, rather than having the first bash
> wait for it to finish. Thus, you should not end up with two copies
> of bash in memory. (This depends, of course, on the correct
> implementation of the exec() functions in the cygwin1.dll)
>
> /John Vincent.

Than this is a cygwin-bug?
(now i remember what exec means, isn't there an exec() in perl, too?)

i definitly get 2 bash.exe in the NT-taskmanager, and the first bash.exe 
keeps holding a handle to it's current dir.


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