From: John Paul Morrison (jmorriso@rflab.ee.ubc.ca)
Date: 03/28/93


From: jmorriso@rflab.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Subject: Re: 0.99.7a job control better, but still odd
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 02:04:20 GMT

In article <1993Mar29.015755.17047@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@rflab.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
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>I applied the 0.99.7a diffs, and rebuilt the kernel.
>I noticed some changes to signal.c, and I was hoping the job control
>problems would be fixed. But something's still strange, at least
>with trn and vi. If I follow up to an article in trn, vi gets started.
>Now if I suspend vi with ^Z in bash or tcsh, and then resume, then
>I get trn and vi fighting for input: both vi and trn try to read characters.
>very confusing. however if I use vi inside elm, I dont get this behaviour.
>Is it a problem with trn or the shell or kernel signals?

I just tried it again, and I *DO* get job control weirdness with elm and vi.
This is odd, because I tried this before with vi and elm, but I didnt get
the two processes fighting for input. very strange...

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