Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001122152436.02106e20@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:25:29 -0500 To: DJ Delorie From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: newbie: Out of order execution in script Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <200011222018.PAA32341@envy.delorie.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20001122150913.020f6e18@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20001122150913.020f6e18@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:18 PM 11/22/2000, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I guess I'm confused as to why one should expect things exec'd to run in > > a certain sequence. Isn't that the point of execing? If you're going to > >You're thinking of fork() (or perhaps spawn()). What exec() does is >replace the current process with a new one, which obviously must be >done in the right sequence ;) Yikes! Gotta read the email more carefully!;-) Larry -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com