From: sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: bash and '&'
8 Apr 1998 19:05:19 -0700
Message-ID: <01BD6270.57BBB320.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com>, "'Wei Ku'" <wku1 AT utk DOT edu>
Cc: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Wei Ku wrote:
> I got the exactly result from b19. Ghostview& is still alive after exit from
> bash. However, the console window does not disappear until Ghostview is
> closed. This is slightly different from the situation in true UNIX machine.
> 
> I would guess that Mr. Sergey Okhapkin has a clear idea why the console
> window is still there.
> 

It's very easy - cygwin-compiled ghostview is a _console_ application! It has console buffer allocated and console handles opened.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia


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