[ILUG] [OT] Reconnecting to standard output - Solaris

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:48:55 +0000
  | From: P at draigBrady.com
  | 
  | Ciaran Johnston wrote:
  | > In solaris, if I exit the shell [ after starting a backgrounded
  | > process whose stdout is the terminal ], the background process
  | > keeps running, but loses it's tty
  | 
  | Are you sure it keeps running? Where does the output go to?
  | The behaviour under linux for background processes is to
  | be suspended if they output.

 rubbish.
 on Linux, using bash(1) as the shell:

    $ (sleep 3; echo FOO) &
    $
   [ wait c.3 seconds ]
    FOO

 you are correct, however, if you mean _input_.
 requesting input (i.e,, reading) yer controlling terminal
 when you are in the background does cause the process to
 be suspended on _any_ modern *ix, including both Solaris
 and Linux.

 I concur with Pádraig's suggestion to consider nohup(1)
 or similar commands.

cheers!
	-blf-
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