Why is it that Cygwin can run .bat scripts?

Question

When I execute a .bat script from bash in Cygwin, by what mechanism is it running? I understand that if I run a .EXE it will launch, regardless of whether the .EXE is from

Answer 1

And if you want to fork an *.cmd file execution like a ShellScript process and append his log to an file:

cmd /c test.bat > nohup.out &

Enjoy!