Re: Linux doing "cooperative multitasking"?

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
28 Nov 1996 00:18:26 +0100

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In linux.dev.kernel, article <199611271420.HAA01211@fire.lardav.com>,
Thayne_Harbaugh@lardav.com (Thayne Harbaugh) writes:
>
> > not giving "&" at the end of the command line. So I hit "^Z" on the terminal I
> > started netscape. Nothing happens for a long time or at all.
>
> After you hit ^Z did you put the process in the background with "bg"?

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A SHELL PROMPT AT THAT POINT.

The problem is that Netscape blocks the ^Z until something happens in its X
window (you enter it with the mouse, for instance). Just try it.

This is a Netscape bug. There's nothing you can do about it (OK -- you can
complain to Netscape; whether that'll help is another question).

-- Better safe than sorry.

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