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Re: Subshell


Sorry, it should have been #! (beginners mistake, I guess)
Thanks,
Greg

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:49:27PM -0600, Gregory Borota wrote:
> >#/bin/bash
> >echo Silly
> >( sleep 50 &
> > ( sleep 50 ) )
> >wait
> >
> >each subshell is "sh.exe".
>
> Why would bash arbitrarily choose "sh.exe" as the subshell?
>
> >I want to be be "bash.exe".  How do I force that without having to
> >write bash -c ....
> >
> >P.S. Looked at cygwin faq, archive, didn't find the answer although this
> >I would think has been brought up before.
>
> Hmm.
>
>   c:\>cd cygwin\bin
>
>   c:\cygwin\bin>ren sh.exe sh-saf.exe
>   C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -> C:\cygwin\bin\sh-saf.exe
>        1 file renamed
>
>   c:\cygwin\bin>bash
>   bash-2.05b$ (sleep 1&)	# works
>   bash-2.05b$ cat /tmp/tst
>   #!/bin/bash
>   echo Silly
>   (sleep 1 &
>    (sleep 1))
>   bash-2.05b$ /tmp/tst
>   Silly
>   bash-2.05b$ # works
>
> If bash used /bin/sh then it would have complained when running the above.
>
> I verified via strace that bash wasn't looking for sh.exe and settling
> for bash.exe if it didn't exist, too.
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