Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!arcsun.arc.ab.ca!calgary!cpsc!paquette From: paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: What does winopen(3G) do? Keywords: winopen sgi edge background parent child wsh Message-ID: <1990May30.140318.17143@calgary.uucp> Date: 30 May 90 14:03:18 GMT References: Sender: news@calgary.uucp (Network News Manager) Distribution: na Organization: The University of Calgary Lines: 18 In article , broderic@genesis.rutgers.edu (Alfred J. Broderick) writes: > > It seems that all programs that use winopen(3G) (including `wsh`) > run in the background but do not show up in the when you type `jobs`. > How does this work? Is there any way to debug programs that use > winopen with `edge`? Whenever I try to use `edge` to debug a program > that uses winopen, my program runs to completion before edge is able > to do a "stop at". Just before your winopen() statement add the foreground() statement. This will fix your 'problem'. ___________________________________________/No man is a failure who has friends Trevor Paquette ICBM:51'03"N/114'05"W|I accept the challange, body and soul, {ubc-cs,utai,alberta}!calgary!paquette|to seek the knowledge of the ones of old paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca | - engraved on the Kersa Blade of Esalon