[Coco] Another NitrOS-9 Level 1 question

[Barry Nelson]

The extra shell is created by the parenthesis around the inetd command. The parenthesis create a sub shell which runs until all the processes in the parenthesis exit.

> William Carlin whcarlinjr at gmail.com  <mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20Another%20NitrOS-9%20Level%201%20question&In-Reply-To=%3CCABDDd1SrHJ7%3DL7hDJfCOvQN0fzrRuRtY_siF7mv5LGeN6xbong%40mail.gmail.com%3E>
> Sun Jan 1 07:43:23 EST 2017
> I am trying to start the inetd in the startup script but am running into
> something strange:
> 
> After startup completes, there is an extra shell "stuck" in memory because
> I called inetd as a background process.  This does not happen under Level 2.
> 
> Here are the details.
> 
> Bill Pierce's XRoar pre-built binary package.  Using the 32 column
> version.  All XRoar settings are default from the package ask is the
> OS9Boot.
> 
> My startup file and the process list after boot and I have logged into
> NOS-9 in a telnet session:
> 
> OS9:list startup
> link shell
> del /dd/LOGS/inetd.log
> (inetd>>>/dd/LOGS/inetd.log)&
> list sys/motd