From: sos@buggy.prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: bash and '&' 8 Apr 1998 19:05:19 -0700 Message-ID: <01BD6270.57BBB320.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> To: Earnie Boyd , "'Wei Ku'" Cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.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. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".