Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!access!edm!steve
From: steve@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Interactive Background Processes
Message-ID: <3205@edm.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 88 08:43:47 GMT
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Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
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From article , by webber@porthos.rutgers.edu.UUCP:
> In article <16365@brl-adm.ARPA>, kvancamp@ardec.arpa (Ken Van Camp) writes:
>> 
>> 	When running large, computationally-intensive programs (such as ....
>> perform other tasks, logout, etc.  Unfortunately, under Unix, selecting
>> background processing precludes interactivity in the software.

You can still open a specific TTY... If you do not orphan the task, then you
can still query /dev/tty, else you can find out which tty to talk to and 
open(3) /dev/ttyxxx directly and talk to it..
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