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

[Steven W. Orr]

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<-  ?

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