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From: jim@eeg.UUCP (Jim Ruppert)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.lang.c
Subject: am I in the background?
Message-ID: <124@eeg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Apr-86 18:26:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 24 18:26:46 1986
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Organization: EEG Systems Laboratory, San Francisco
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Keywords: signal isatty background
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I'm new to usenet news, so forgive me if this has been covered before...

How can a process tell if it is running in the background?  I've tried
using isatty() and signal(), but to no avail.  Any suggestions?
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	Jim Ruppert, EEG Systems Laboratory
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