I just installed SysInternals' FileMon utility and have discovered all kinds of unknown activity going on behind the scenes.
One that surprised me was Bash. FileMon says that Bash is doing 90-100 FSCTL_PIPE_SEEK operations EVERY SECOND! It does this even if a command is running, so there is no open prompt looking for input. Is it *supposed* to do that?? I'm running 3.2.17(15)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) on XP Pro. Gary
