From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 15:40:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA17099 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA17091 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:40:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA26297 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:40:32 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA00665; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:24:50 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970928002450.TG36648@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:24:50 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ee taking up weird cpu amount. References: <19970927145007.HB02894@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709272217.PAA13667@usr08.primenet.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709272217.PAA13667@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 27, 1997 22:17:52 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > The foreground process group gets properly signalled. I've been using > > a FreeBSD-based ISP for long enough to know that it works. > > Then under what circumstances is it ever possible to get a process > buzzing in a "read returns 0 bytes" loop? The process was in the background, thus in a different process group. > > This is why the manual says that running background > > jobs are ``effectively nohuped''. They are not really nohuped. > > Which manual are you reading? The csh manual. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)