HELP - Background jobs in csh

Jeff Anton anton at ucbvax.ARPA
Tue Apr 9 06:34:04 AEST 1985


Background and foreground jobs are determined by process group.
A background process (job) will have a different process group
than the terminal.  You get the terminal process group with TIOCGPGRP
as described in tty(4).  Compare this with getpgrp(2).
-- 
C knows no bounds.
					Jeff Anton
					U.C.Berkeley
					ucbvax!anton
					anton at berkeley.ARPA



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