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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: ping from a background process stops for input
To: partha@Ipsilon.COM (Partha Saraty)
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 21:20:40 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199512170037.QAA23976@mailhost.Ipsilon.COM> from "Partha Saraty" at Dec 16, 95 04:37:08 pm
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Partha Saraty writes:
> 
> 
> When I do a ping and place the stdout in a file from a
> background process, it waits for tty input and doesn't
> continue.  Is this a known problem?  Is there a 
> workaround?  Any help would be appreciated.
> 

Redirect ping's input from /dev/null or remove this piece of code
from ping.c:165.

        if (tcgetattr (0, &ts) != -1) {
                reset_kerninfo = !(ts.c_lflag & NOKERNINFO);
                ts.c_lflag |= NOKERNINFO;
                tcsetattr (0, TCSANOW, &ts);
        }


John Capo
IRBS Engineering
(305) 792-9551