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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
