** Reply to message from Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 14 Jul
2005 17:11:10 +0200 (CEST)

>The developer of the shell has the freedom to either spawn a separate
>process for a subshell expression or execute the subshell commands in
>the in a newly created enviroment that is a copy of the current
>environment environment.
>
>It is wrong to assume using (...) will actually create a new process. 

*That* was not at all obvious (at least to me), and is important to
know.

Thanks!

        Dave

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Dave Anderson
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