Thank you again, I looked further and found out that this happens when I start the mysql-nt application from bash.
Here's the result when I start it from cmd - only one process listed with equal cywgin and win PIDs: D:>mysql\bin\mysqld-nt.exe --defaults-file=conf\mysql.conf bash-3.2$ ps -W | grep mysql 6044 0 0 6044 ? 0 13:24:25 D:\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt.exe And then the bash version: bash-3.2$ mysql/bin/mysqld-nt.exe --defaults-file=conf/mysql.conf bash-3.2$ ps -W | grep mysql 992 4572 992 5900 con 500 14:35:13 /drives/d/mysql/bin/mysqld-nt 5900 0 0 5900 ? 0 14:35:14 d:\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt.exe The funny thing is that with cygwin 1.3 both commands invoked only one process. This is mysql 5.0.38. My question is: Is there a way to make this work like in 1.3 (producing only one process with the same pid I can use later), or I should look for a workaround? -- 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/