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Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behaviorweirdness
Max Bowsher wrote:
> Richard H. Broberg wrote:
>> In the meantime I'll
>> happily use rxvt in place of bash, since it does what I need.
>
> You are confused.
>
> rxvt is a terminal.
> bash is a shell.
Looked at another way:
rxvt is a GUI application.
bash is a console application.
When bash runs, Windows allocates a console. When rxvt runs, Windows
doesn't allocate a console. Very different behaviors result.
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