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From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tty blocked in background job
Message-ID: <1991May29.224611.3699@ms.uky.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 22:46:11 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?

Try "stty -tostop".  If this doesn't work, read your stty(1) man page
to see if there's a different switch for this function.
-- 
Kenneth Herron                                            kherron@ms.uky.edu
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