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

[Cook, Rich]

Yes, but note that it stops at read() even before my ^Z effort.  ^Z causes no 
output; things just hang there. 

On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:

>> 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
> 
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