getting a sh.exe for every background task

Question

I am running about 30 processes in parallel started from a bash script using:

/MyApp arg1 arg2 &

Where /MyApp is softlink to c# executable.

I notice in tasklist that there is a "sh.exe" for each MyApp I start.

Is this expected? Or am I starting the tasks incorrectly?

Answer 1

Try running your command with exec, e.g.:

exec /MyApp arg1 arg2&

This will cause the /MyApp to replace the shell and then run in the background and you won't see an extra shell being spawned with every command.