Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-WM-Posted-At: avacado.atomice.net; Sat, 14 Sep 02 17:34:41 +0100 From: "Chris January" To: "Cygwin@Cygwin.Com" Subject: Question about Cygwin process behaviour and bash interactive mode Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:34:41 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal If I launch a Windows command shell (cmd.exe) from, e.g. a Window shortcut, and then run bash from that shell, bash starts interactive mode. If I launch a Cygwin bash shell from, e.g. cygwin.bat, then run cmd from that shell (I type cmd), a Windows command shell starts. If I then run bash from that command shell, bash starts in non-interactive mode. Can anyone explain this behaviour and why bash starts in interactive mode in one case, and non-interactive mode in the other, even though both times it is launched from cmd.exe? Chris --- Starting bash from cmd.exe running from shortcut: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\chris>bash bash-2.05b$ somecommand bash: somecommand: command not found Starting bash from cmd.exe started from bash: ^^^ bash is running in interactive mode. chris@AVACADO ~ $ cmd Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\cygwin\home\chris>bash bash somecommand bash: line 1: somecommand: command not found ^^^^ bash is running in non-interactive mode -- 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/