Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 23:01:09 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: echo dev <echo_dev@hotmail.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C ???? Message-ID: <20020530230109.A10339@haegar.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> In-Reply-To: <F269bpH71yEXUIEAOeI00011e92@hotmail.com>; from echo_dev@hotmail.com on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:17:24PM %2B0000 References: <F269bpH71yEXUIEAOeI00011e92@hotmail.com>
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echo dev writes:
>I am coding a scheduler. It is going to paste a msg to the screen after a
>certain time. How might i run this in the background? I tried just casting
>it into the background with the name& but it did'nt work. I need it to asked
>the questions and then put it self into the background. If someone could
>give me some liks to some docs I woould be vary grateful..
If your backgrounded program stops when it tries to write to the
terminal, you might want to unset tostop on the terminal via stty(1):
tostop (-tostop)
Send (do not send) SIGTTOU for background output. This
causes background jobs to stop if they attempt terminal out
put.
--mkb
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