Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 09:58:54 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Gasparovski / Daniel (ISE)" <u923168@student.canberra.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX now available Message-ID: <199510151558.JAA07849@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:09:22 %2B1000
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: Why can't this be done in the shell? It could, but pty's are "rare" on most systems (rarely than pipes at least). : eg: have the shell fork off the process, give it a pty as controlling : terminal which will be handled by the shell, and by default show it's : output on the user's tty. Then, if a "bg >& make.out" is given, have the : shell open make.out and start writing the output there instead of the tty. : : It's not the most ideal solution, for example "ls" won't do the right : thing, but it's good enough for most, if not all, situations. Since ls would be connected to a pty, it would produce the right output, no? I like this idea, but can't deside if it is too gross or not... Warner
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