Re: [Help-bash] backgrounding a process sends it into a tailspin

[Cook, Rich]

On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> On 09/12/12 14:43, quoth Chet Ramey:
>>> For completeness, here is the script I ran that hung:
>> 
>> In read, according to strace.  That's fine: it's just waiting for input.
>> I mean the one that your user ran in the background that caused the CPU-
>> killing signal storm.
>> 
>> Chet
>> 
> 
> So then is is the case that instead of redirecting stdin from /dev/null, a 
> better approach would be to close stdin, a la 0<-  ?

I think that starts putting me in the woods.  gnuplot needs stdin or it is kind 
of useless to us

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