Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:18:34 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org Subject: Re: Strange exec behavior Message-ID: <20020314231834.GA27377@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org References: <3C9105D1.9463CCAB@ieee.org> <20020314203818.GD28153@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020314203818.GD28153@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:38:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >>Is this normal? [ please cc: me directly] > >Yes. > >cgf > >>~> ps -W | fgrep /a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >> 506 1 345 430 3 11054 13:49:15 /h/a >>[Incidentally the WINPIDs are reported incorrectly, but that's >> a side issue ] FWIW, I've checked in a fix for the incorrect WINPIDs above. Also, this question has been asked previously in the mailing list. There should be a description in the archives. However if you think about how exec has to work under cygwin it may be obvious why the processes stay around. It's possible to optimize things so that just two processes need to stay around but that would end up adding a fair amount of code for this one situation. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/