RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xinit-1.1.1-5

["Phil Betts" <Phil dot Betts at ascribe dot com>]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 
>> In 'startxwin.bat' I see:
>>
>> %RUN% bash -l -c "XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error"
>>
>> Shouldn't it be
>>
>> %RUN% bash -l -c "XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error &" ?
> 
> No, "run" implicitly puts the target in the background, unless you add
> the '-w' (wait) option.

I think Angelo was trying to avoid having an unnecessary bash process
hanging around.  Bash is only used to prepare the environment, so why
not do it like this instead:

%RUN% bash -l -c "exec XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error"

i.e. the bash process is replaced by XWin rather than spawning a new
process, putting it in the background, then exiting.  Under *IX, this 
is usually more efficient than Angelo's method, but I don't know if 
this is true under cygwin, given the complexity of getting exec/fork 
etc. to work under Windows.

Phil
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