Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 16:57:44 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jc@irbs.com, partha@Ipsilon.COM Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ping from a background process stops for input Message-ID: <199512170557.QAA26907@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>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);
> }
This bug was introduced in FreeBSD-2.0.
The NOKERNINFO flag tended to get stuck on while I was testing this.
It is only restored for normal exits and SIGINTs.
Bruce
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