> For example, it is well known that "background processes" can't use the > terminal interface. But try start several xterm& (background xterms) and > you will still get several fully functional xterm windows. background jobs may indeed output to the terminal, unless stty tostop is in effect, whereupon the job will receive the TSTP signal upon attempting output to the terminal. the default result of receiving TSTP is for the job to be stopped. for exquisite confusion, background jobs may also input from the terminal. if there's a setting that controls that, i'm unaware... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20181127/085140cd/attachment.html>