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On 2012-06-06 22:19Z, jjo wrote:
> 
> Oftentimes, when I start my command line launched console application from
> Cygwin it runs through to the end and then it restarts itself from the
> beginning without any intervention on my part.

Perhaps it's because of 'proc_retry', described here:
  http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
and a program that doesn't return an explicit value < 65535:
  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2007-05/msg00071.html

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