update-menus runs in the background?

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

It seems that /usr/bin/update-menus now runs in the background.  I ran
sudo apt-et install glade, and after it finished, I ran ps -ef |tail
-5, and the last commands running were update-menus.real, and
install-menu.

Is it supposed to be a background job, and, if so, why?

Thanks, please Cc: me,
Justin