On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:51:48PM +1200, Victor Villa wrote: > After running a process in the background (by putting "&" at the end of the > command line) the output of "jobs" correctly shows > the process as "running". If I send the process a STOP signal with "kill > -STOP", the process stops and "jobs" shows the > process as "suspended (signal)". The problem is that after sending a CONT > signal to the process (with kill -CONT), > "jobs" still shows the process as suspended, even though the process resumes > (if it's a media file I can hear it > playing, for example. > > The processes I used to test this were "ping -i 4 -f localhost" and mpg321. > I tried the same using bash and the status > are correctly updated. I tried also "/bin/kill" but the same thing happens.
Your job table isn't being updated when you send the STOP/CONT signals externally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org