From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdcattb!sdcarl!rusty Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Title: csh jobs/tostop bug Article-I.D.: sdcarl.4253 Posted: Fri Jan 14 10:14:05 1983 Received: Sun Jan 16 04:50:10 1983 given the following command line cmd & stty tostop & wait ; fg ``cmd'' produces output and takes a minute or so to produce it, therefore the stty exits successfully before it. i would expect that csh would run both of the 1st two commands in the background and do the wait until ``cmd'' tries to do some output whereupon it would be stopped and then the fg would be executed and you'd get attached to ``cmd''. this is not what happens. as an example try the above and use the following shell script for ``cmd'': #! /bin/sh sleep 10 echo "hello, world" be sure to do an ``stty -tostop'' beforehand in case you have tostop set.