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 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:05:40 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Subshell Message-ID: <20040312200540.GA4385@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam 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. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/