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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: zzapper Subject: Re: WinXP can only run one cygwin background job? Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 23:16:54 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <20040604221127.GB30704@coe.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-oxfd4-4-0-cust194.oxfd.cable.ntl.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:11:27 -0400, wrote: >On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:30:11PM +0100, zzapper wrote: >>Sorry, >>I realise this must be an old Cygwin chestnut, But I've only just >>noticed that WinXP only seems to run one background job at a time. I >>presume I'm stuck with behaviour >> >>[1] - running checkbot --url http://www.url1.co.uk >>[2] + running checkbot --url http://www.url2.co.uk/ > >How is the above output supposed to prove that WinXP is only running >one background job at a time? Are you misinterpreting the '+' >and '-' characters, maybe? Christopher, Blush red, sorry I was!!! I tried to do a >man jobs zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- 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/