Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Eggert wrote: >> But no extra process is involved here; the shell script does not fork. >... >> The overhead is so small on my Debian stable host (with a 5-year-old >> CPU) that I can't easily measure it. Perhaps things are different on >> Cygwin but I suspect in practice the overhead is relatively small >> there, too. > > If you're talking about fork(),
No, since the shell script does not fork.
