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-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:01:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Pensa, Pascal" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Bash extremely slow when started via task scheduler In-Reply-To: <06CAA4D3753C53408D2CE6340B68444201D9454B@vbeexc02.emea.cpqcorp.net> Message-ID: References: <06CAA4D3753C53408D2CE6340B68444201D9454B@vbeexc02.emea.cpqcorp.net> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Pensa, Pascal wrote: > From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason@tishler.net] > >Why not use cron instead? > > > >Jason > > Thank you for suggestion but it's an application server managed by > non-UNIX 'mouse users' which may manually start the task, so it should > be simple for them. > > It seems that not having an output window slows down the script > dramatically on each 'echo'. > > As workaround I started the script with another bash (to access cygwin > /dev/null) , it work just fine now but it's a bit ugly (bash forking > bash...) so any better idea will be appreciated: > > Before: > > bash myscript > > Has been replaced by: > > bash -c "bash myscript >/dev/null > I really don't know why 'echo' is behaving like this. > > Pascal You could put an "exec >/dev/null 2>&1