Re: Does anyone understand terminal job control?

[Adrian Levi <adrian.levi@gmail.com>]

2009/2/8 Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>:
>  Hello list,
>
>  I've been banging my head on this one for a while.
>
>  I have a need to write some code that can manage job control on a
> terminal.  More specifically, I need to run a single process and stuff
> it into the background at will, so that it gets suspended when it tries
> to read from the terminal.  So, there's a "controller" process and
> a "subprocess" process.
>
>     controller  ----------> subprocess
>                   manages

You cant send the equivalent of ^z then fg to resume?
AFAIK the process will be suspended until you type bg to run the
process in the background or fg to bring it back into the foreground.

Hope this helps you.

Adrian

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