"exquisite confusion" Love it. gregrwm wrote: > For example, it is well known that "background processes" can't use > the terminal interface. But try start several xterm& (background > xterms) and you will still get several fully functional xterm windows. > > > background jobs may indeed output to the terminal, unless > stty tostop > is in effect, whereupon the job will receive the TSTP signal upon > attempting output to the terminal. the default result of receiving TSTP > is for the job to be stopped. > > for exquisite confusion, background jobs may also input from the > terminal. if there's a setting that controls that, i'm unaware... > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >