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RE: bash and '&'
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>, "'Wei Ku'" <wku1 at utk dot edu>
- Subject: RE: bash and '&'
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at buggy dot prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:58:41 +0400
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
Wei Ku wrote:
> I got the exactly result from b19. Ghostview& is still alive after exit from
> bash. However, the console window does not disappear until Ghostview is
> closed. This is slightly different from the situation in true UNIX machine.
>
> I would guess that Mr. Sergey Okhapkin has a clear idea why the console
> window is still there.
>
It's very easy - cygwin-compiled ghostview is a _console_ application! It has console buffer allocated and console handles opened.
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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