tty blocked in background job

Kenneth Herron kherron at ms.uky.edu
Thu May 30 08:46:11 AEST 1991


In article <1991May29.054939.11898 at csc.canberra.edu.au> rvp at softserver.canberra.edu.au (Rey Paulo) writes:
>Whenever a job is run int the background and the job happens to write to the
>tty from which it was run, the message "tty blocked" occurs.  This causes the
>job to be suspended.  Is there any way that a background job's access to the
>tty not blocked?

Try "stty -tostop".  If this doesn't work, read your stty(1) man page
to see if there's a different switch for this function.
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