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Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:05:40 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Subshell
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:49:27PM -0600, Gregory Borota wrote:
>#/bin/bash
>echo Silly
>( sleep 50 &
> ( sleep 50 ) )
>wait
>
>each subshell is "sh.exe".

Why would bash arbitrarily choose "sh.exe" as the subshell?

>I want to be be "bash.exe".  How do I force that without having to
>write bash -c ....
>
>P.S. Looked at cygwin faq, archive, didn't find the answer although this
>I would think has been brought up before.

Hmm.

  c:\>cd cygwin\bin

  c:\cygwin\bin>ren sh.exe sh-saf.exe
  C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -> C:\cygwin\bin\sh-saf.exe
       1 file renamed

  c:\cygwin\bin>bash
  bash-2.05b$ (sleep 1&)	# works
  bash-2.05b$ cat /tmp/tst
  #!/bin/bash
  echo Silly
  (sleep 1 &
   (sleep 1))
  bash-2.05b$ /tmp/tst
  Silly
  bash-2.05b$ # works

If bash used /bin/sh then it would have complained when running the above.

I verified via strace that bash wasn't looking for sh.exe and settling
for bash.exe if it didn't exist, too.
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