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On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:06:34AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >to fd 2 which is the tty which stops you dead in your tracks. > > Dear Berkeley and/or AT&T or whoever owned UNIX the week the decision > was made to stop background jobs that wrote to stderr, I would like to > render a hearty "FUCK YOU". % stty -tostop Will fix that particular piece of hatred. Of course, it's utterly hateful that it's necessary in the first place. I'll never forget quite how much of the very large (albeit very good) Advanced Unix Programming book[1] was devoted to interacting with the terminal driver and its idiosyncracies... Hate? I nearly laughed. -Dom [1] RIP, WRS.There's stuff above here
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