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