[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xinit-1.1.1-5

[Angelo Graziosi]

Angelo Graziosi ha scritto:
> Phil Betts wrote:
>> I think Angelo was trying to avoid having an unnecessary bash process
>> hanging around.
> 
> Indeed! (I think...)
> 
> I have various links on desktop (to start Emacs, mrxvt, xfig, etc.) like 
> this:
> 
> C:\cygwin-2\bin\run.exe bash -l -c 'rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix; XWin 
> -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error &'
> 
> and 'experimentally' adding '&' reduces the number of processes, as 
> shown by task manager...
> 
>> so why
>> not do it like this instead:
>>
>> %RUN% bash -l -c "exec XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error"
> 
> interesting... I will give it a try. But, in any case, it would be 
> useful to know what Cygwin guys think.

Using 'exec', task manager shows always one more process: bash...


Cheers,
Angelo.

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