From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) Subject: Re: Signal problems (e.g., running an editor under a news reader) Date: 27 Apr 1993 02:01:01 GMT
In article <1993Apr27.013915.4876@excaliber.uucp> joel@rac2.wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
>I know this has been discussed before: Running an editor, for
>example, under a news reader with Linux gets the signals messed up,
>and sometimes the parent wakes up before the child (the editor) is
>finished, and they fight for input. I understand this is a bug in the
>kernel (any idea when it'll be fixed?).
Can someone provide a definitive answer to this?
If I shell out of rn and start up vi, and then hit ^C (the interrupt key),
I'm apparently returned to rn... but not quite. vi and rn fight for the
terminal: if I type ^L vi redraws its screen, and if I type "b" the
current article under rn is redisplayed.
The same thing happens with rn under Linux.
mdw
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