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From: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: write to terminal in a background process
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I thought a background process can not write to terminal. It will get a
signal if trying to do so. But someone presents me a small program:

#include
main()
{
	printf("printing\n");
}

$ a.out &

and it does print. Can anyone explain this to me?  Thanks.

-Zhihui





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