Sorry, it should have been #! (beginners mistake, I guess) Thanks, Greg On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:49:27PM -0600, Gregory Borota wrote: > >#/bin/bash > >echo Silly > >( sleep 50 & > > ( sleep 50 ) ) > >wait > > > >each subshell is "sh.exe". > > Why would bash arbitrarily choose "sh.exe" as the subshell? > > >I want to be be "bash.exe". How do I force that without having to > >write bash -c .... > > > >P.S. Looked at cygwin faq, archive, didn't find the answer although this > >I would think has been brought up before. > > Hmm. > > c:\>cd cygwin\bin > > c:\cygwin\bin>ren sh.exe sh-saf.exe > C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -> C:\cygwin\bin\sh-saf.exe > 1 file renamed > > c:\cygwin\bin>bash > bash-2.05b$ (sleep 1&) # works > bash-2.05b$ cat /tmp/tst > #!/bin/bash > echo Silly > (sleep 1 & > (sleep 1)) > bash-2.05b$ /tmp/tst > Silly > bash-2.05b$ # works > > If bash used /bin/sh then it would have complained when running the above. > > I verified via strace that bash wasn't looking for sh.exe and settling > for bash.exe if it didn't exist, too. > -- > Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. > Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
