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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:40:14 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tty
Message-ID:  <20011012124014.I2865@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011012021916.95181.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com>; from annkok2001@yahoo.com on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:19:16PM -0700
References:  <20011012021916.95181.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:19:16PM -0700, ann kok wrote:
> Have you met the following?

yes

> stdin: is not tty
> What is this meaning?

It happens when a program is running in the background and tries
to open stdin. Normally it will eat the characters of the keyboard
then, but since it runs in the background there isn't a keyboard
to eat from.

Any idea which program it is which is printing these lines?

Edwin
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