From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!npoiv!alice!mhtsa!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!mhuxv!mhuxj!cbosgd!mark Newsgroups: net.news.b Title: Re: fork problem in inews.c? Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2505 Posted: Sun Aug 8 12:32:35 1982 Received: Mon Aug 9 02:09:43 1982 The change in 2.9 was a crucial bug fix - otherwise, inews would immediately fork into the background if you invoked it directly, and it and your shell would fight for input from your tty. In any case, the intent is for the parent to exit, leaving the child to enter the article in the background, making response appear faster to the user. There are a number of problems with forking. There may be a full name problem - that case isn't very well tested since all sites here have the name in the gecos field. There are also problems with recordings for control messages (inews -C) and the mail (recnews) interface. Mark