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

[Cook, Rich]

On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> On 9/12/12 5:00 PM, Cook, Rich wrote:
> 
>> I think that starts putting me in the woods.  gnuplot needs stdin or it is 
>> kind of useless to us
> 
> Well, then why worry about the problem of putting it in the background
> anyway?  You can't read from stdin in the background.  If you just say
> it won't work in the background, and attempting to start it in the
> background is user error because it needs stdin, we're not having this
> conversation.

There are multiple users and use cases.  Some users want to put it into the 
background and then bring it back, which works fine if it's not called through 
a wrapper script.  But even those that put it into the background want it to 
come back and read from stdin. 

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