Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:01:28 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Process Forking Message-ID: <20011028180128.D23959@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3BDC5FB5.5000108@Blueyonder.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BDC5FB5.5000108@Blueyonder.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:42:45PM +0000, Jonathan Boler wrote: >When I use "mozilla.exe &" to start mozilla or any other process, >another bash.exe process is spawned too. The documentation seems to >indicate that this extra bash process should terminate before the >mozilla process has finished. If mozilla.exe is not a cygwin process then another cygwin process is required to act as a "stub" when a non-cygwin process execed. In this case the "stub" is bash.exe. >Is this correct or should there be an extra bash process for every >process that I start using the &? Only for non-cygwin processes. >If so then it is a bit annoying. I am running win2k. Sigh. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/