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.



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