cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness

[Francis Litterio]

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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