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From:	Peter Ekberg <peda AT lysator DOT liu DOT se>
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Subject:	Re: "fork problem" debugging
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On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 10:40:34PM +0000, Torfinn Ottesen wrote:
> <heavily snipped content>

<snipping some more>

>          I did this for three programs, prog1 (commercial, external),
>          prog2 (inhouse, compiled on Cygwin) and native cygwin prog3:
>          "echo". I claim that I saw increased increase memory usage 
>          for prog1 and prog2 - but not for the "echo" program.

Did you really fork for echo, or did you use a shell builtin by mistake?

/bin/echo is your friend...

Cheers,
Peter

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