Re: [Mingw-users] Some Process Questions

[BGINFO4X <bgi...@kz...>]

> It is.  If I open two MSYS shell windows, and run (say) 'sleep 120' in
> one of them, then 'ps -ef' in the other, I see two sh.exe processes
> running, with sleep.exe as a child of one of them.  Two sh.exe and one
> sleep.exe process also show up in Windows Task Manager, so I don't know
> what your SysInternals Process Explorer is doing there.
Yes, your are right. Sysinternal Process Explorer doesn't report sleep
as a child.
But it is a child: killing the sh.exe kills also the child sleep.

> 2- When msys starts, Is it possible to launch a shell script without
> spawning two shell processes?

> If you source the script, it should run in the context of the primary
> shell; try:
  > start /bin/sh.exe --login -c 'source path/to/script args ...'
> (However, I don't think -c and -i can be used together successfully).
source command is OK, and the -i option removed.

Thanks again and Regards.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.



2013/12/10 BGINFO4X <bgi...@kz...>

> Hello to everyone, I have some questions regarding to process:
>
>
> 1- Is there anyway to create a process like "sleep 300" inside the bash
> shell, where the winpid be a child process of the sh.exe itself?
>
> If I execute sleep, sysinternals process explorer reports that the WIN-
> PPID of sleep is nonexistent, and in my opinion should be a "child"
> process of sh.exe
>
>
>
> 2- When msys starts, Is it possible to launch a shell script without
> spawning two shell processes?
>
> I have a sentence like: start "BGINFO4X for Windows"  /HIGH "%WD%sh" --
> login -i -c "./BGINFO4X.sh"
>
> Is it possible something like:  start "BGINFO4X for Windows"  /HIGH "%WD%sh
> -c ./BGINFO4X.sh"
> spawning only a process instead of two?
>
>
> Sorry for my ignorance. I appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
>