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From: art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tty blocked in background job
Message-ID: <1991May29.181925.15917@pilikia.pegasus.com>
Date: 29 May 91 18:19:25 GMT
References: <1991May29.054939.11898@csc.canberra.edu.au>
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In article <1991May29.054939.11898@csc.canberra.edu.au> rvp@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Rey Paulo) writes:
>Whenever a job is run int the background and the job happens to write to the
>tty from which it was run, the message "tty blocked" occurs.  This causes the
>job to be suspended.  Is there any way that a background job's access to the
>tty not blocked?

Either run the job in the foreground or redirect the job's output
to a file before running the job in the background.
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