From: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Subject: Re: forking vim gui 11 Oct 1997 13:19:09 -0700 Message-ID: References: <199710101018.LAA37535@muzak.trintech.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Colman Curtin wrote: > folks > Having successfully compiled my fav editor vim a while back. > How come when I launch it as 'gvim' or 'vim -g' which causes vim to fork the > gui version I get an exception. > However if I launch it as 'vim -g -f' which launches the gui but doesn't > return to the shell it work fine. > But if I launch it as above but use bash to background it 'vim -g -f &' it all > works fine and I get bash back? Under Win95, a program can't fork() or vfork() into the background, without raising an exception. NT will allow this as long as the shell remains open (I think). Using an '&' will not cause the launching program to fork, thus allowing it to work. - alex - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".