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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