Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:54:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: write to terminal in a background process Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009141449420.20348-100000@opal>
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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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