suspend question -- Berkeley kernels kill TSTP processes

[Chris Torek]

In article <11512 at watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
(Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes:
>Berkeley-derived unix kernels SIGKILL processes that receive SIGTSTP,
>SIGTTOU, or SIGTTIN if they have no parent (parent pid == 1 [init]).  

`Fixed in 4.4'

>    % stty tostop
>    % ( date & )
>    % 

[ucb2] stty tostop
[ucb3] (date &)
[ucb4] Mon Sep 18 06:00:20 PDT 1989
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