03.01.2012 00:07, Chet Ramey wrote:
background with `&'. On the other, if you want to move a foreground
job to the background, you have to get it to give up control somehow, and
sending it a signal is the way to do that.
Unless I am mistaken, nothing special is required
for that, and SIGSTOP on
On 1/2/12 2:10 PM, Stas Sergeev wrote:
>>> Will your suggestion about the trap handler work
>>> also for ^Z+bg rather than just fg?
>> It should.
> I tried:
> ---
> trap bg USR1
> ---
> Now if I first send SIGSTOP to the job and then SIGUSR1 to
> bash, that works.
> Is it possible to avoid sending
02.01.2012 22:53, Chet Ramey wrote:
the script, leaving the process alive.
The SIGSTOP/SIGCONT works to put the process into the background: the
jobs pgrp is not the same as the terminal's pgrp. If you don't want
the shell to terminate the job at exit because it's stopped, use
`disown' after th
On 1/2/12 1:38 PM, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> 02.01.2012 22:27, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> In this case it would be nice for bash to have
>>> a signal that will move the background process
>>> to the foreground.
>> But there is already a command to do that: fg.
> Sorry, mistyped, I meant the other way around
02.01.2012 22:27, Chet Ramey wrote:
In this case it would be nice for bash to have
a signal that will move the background process
to the foreground.
But there is already a command to do that: fg.
Sorry, mistyped, I meant the other way around: move
the foreground process to the background, then
On 1/2/12 4:27 AM, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> 02.01.2012 07:15, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> Thanks, I inadvertently left that part of the patch out of what I sent.
> Will you apply this patch for the next bash release?
Yes, it's already applied.
> In this case it would be nice for bash to have
> a signal th
02.01.2012 07:15, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 12/30/11 5:36 AM, Stas Sergeev wrote:
Hello Chet, thanks for your patch file.
It is slightly broken, attached is the fixed version
of your patch.
BUT: it solves only half of the bug.
Thanks, I inadvertently left that part of the patch out of what I sent.
