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Re: yes && bg



On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:01:57PM +0200, Michal Medvecký wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> anyone know about this problem in debian?
> 
> yes
> ^z
> bg
> 
> and the terminal ignore any pressed key || combination.

Well, I don't see anything unexpected:

steve@ivanhoe:~$ yes
y
y
y
y
[lots of y's...]
y
y
y

[1]+  Stopped                 yes
steve@ivanhoe:~$ bg
y
y
y
y
y
[lots more y's...]
y
y
yf
y
y
[...]
y
y
yg
y
y
[...]
y
y
y

y
y
y
[...]
y
y
y
[I press ^C]

steve@ivanhoe:~$ 


Nothing unusual as far as I can tell.  I still have a working shell under
all those y's.  You could probably do some magic with bash's kill
builtin command to stop that job too, if you wanted to.

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