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Subject: Re: ee taking up weird cpu amount.
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:59:35 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <19970928002450.TG36648@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 28, 97 00:24:50 am
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> > > The foreground process group gets properly signalled.  I've been using
> > > a FreeBSD-based ISP for long enough to know that it works.
> > 
> > Then under what circumstances is it ever possible to get a process
> > buzzing in a "read returns 0 bytes" loop?
> 
> The process was in the background, thus in a different process group.

Why isn't it "stopped on tty input" instead?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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