Cygwin Here power toy

Sven Köhler skoehler@upb.de
Thu Oct 24 17:01:00 GMT 2002


> The "exec" before the second invocation of /bin/bash means that
> this replaces the first bash, rather than having the first bash
> wait for it to finish. Thus, you should not end up with two copies
> of bash in memory. (This depends, of course, on the correct
> implementation of the exec() functions in the cygwin1.dll)
>
> /John Vincent.

Than this is a cygwin-bug?
(now i remember what exec means, isn't there an exec() in perl, too?)

i definitly get 2 bash.exe in the NT-taskmanager, and the first bash.exe 
keeps holding a handle to it's current dir.


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