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Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Friday, September 27, 2002 11:36:21 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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!!!Signal: Terminal Input on Background Process
The process is trying to read from a terminal that it no longer is the controlling terminal for. This process will be stopped until a [SIGCONT] is sent. This signal can be caught and ignored, see [SIGTSTP], [SIGSTOP] and [SIGCONT]
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+An example is:
+ bash$ cat > /dev/null &
+ [[1] 31731
+ [[1] + suspended (tty input) cat
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+By default, cat will read from standard input, but the & character means that this command is run in the background, and the terminal's input goes back to the shell. When cat tries to read from the terminal's stdin, a SIGTTIN signal is raised.