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- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 18:06:09 -0400
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- To: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de
- Subject: Background jobs writing on terminal
-
-
- Michael,
-
- In the h6 patch's README you say:
-
- >Known bugs:
- >
- >o background jobs write to the terminal instead of being stopped
-
- I haven't been able to produce this behavior on my system. Does it
- occur with any program being run in the background, or just some?
-
- [51]root@seki::~ # stty tostop
- [52]root@seki::~ # /bin/echo hello &
- [1] 738
-
- [1]+ Stopped (tty output) /bin/echo hello
- [53]root@seki::~ # fg
- /bin/echo hello
- hello
- [54]root@seki::~ # stty -tostop
- [55]root@seki::~ # /bin/echo hello &
- hello
- [1] 740
- [1] Done /bin/echo hello
- [56]root@seki::~ #
-
- -entropy
-
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