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Re: Process Forking
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Process Forking
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:01:28 -0500
- References: <3BDC5FB5.5000108@Blueyonder.co.uk>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:42:45PM +0000, Jonathan Boler wrote:
>When I use "mozilla.exe &" to start mozilla or any other process,
>another bash.exe process is spawned too. The documentation seems to
>indicate that this extra bash process should terminate before the
>mozilla process has finished.
If mozilla.exe is not a cygwin process then another cygwin process is
required to act as a "stub" when a non-cygwin process execed. In this
case the "stub" is bash.exe.
>Is this correct or should there be an extra bash process for every
>process that I start using the &?
Only for non-cygwin processes.
>If so then it is a bit annoying. I am running win2k.
Sigh.
cgf
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