On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:23:36PM -0700, Gary Fritz wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body >I just installed SysInternals' FileMon utility and have discovered all kinds of >unknown activity going on behind the scenes. >>One that surprised me was Bash. FileMon says that Bash is doing 90-100 >FSCTL_PIPE_SEEK operations EVERY SECOND! It does this even if Bash >is currently running a command, so there is no open prompt looking for input. >>Is it *supposed* to do that?? In any cygwin less than 1.7.x, yes. cgf -- 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/