Peter Seebach wrote: > >Or perhaps at the time the change was made fork/vfork was not nearly as > >optimized as it is now. > > That wouldn't give ash any special advantages over bash; indeed, it would > seem to favor shells with *more* builtins.
It could make a huge difference if bash used fork() while ash used spawn(), or something like that. I don't know all the details here but I know that process creation is terribly expensive under Windows and there are multiple ways of achieving the same thing. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
