> Some of my shell scripts on Windows 2000 Server (NTFS partition) seem to be forking their commands. > This has the effect of everything in a script trying to run at once, which royally screws up dependencies. This seems to only happen sometimes. All in all, general system behavior is bad. Well in a script shells will always use either fork or spawn to launch other commands. Do you mean that the shell isn't waiting for the command to finish?
> > Worse yet and perhaps unrelated: when starting a process which forks itself, when the controlling window closes, that process dies too (pg_ctl start). I can't seem to keep my database up unless i avoid using pg_ctl. SIGHUP related? If you close the controlling window, SIGHUP will get sent to the forked children. If they don't catch the signal, they will die. Regards Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
