Process Forking

[Christopher Faylor]

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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