Re^3: How to know if a perl script is put in the background [OT]

... fills my OS X terminal, as it does on Solaris and OpenBSD.

Not here... (Linux / bash with default settings) — But I suppose this discussion is getting off-topic with respect to the original question.

Update: Here's the respective paragraph from bash's man page:

JOB CONTROL
(...) Only foreground processes are allowed to read from or write to the terminal. Background processes which attempt to read from (write to) the terminal are sent a SIGTTIN (SIGTTOU) signal by the terminal driver, which, unless caught, suspends the process.

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Re^4: How to know if a perl script is put in the background [OT] by kyle (Abbot) on Nov 18, 2008 at 18:33 UTC
So this really is controlled by `stty`, specifically the `[-]tostop` option. On my system (which doesn't stop background jobs that try to output), it's off ("`-tostop`"). I'm guessing that on your system it's on. Try: `stty -a` [download] ...and see what it is.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: How to know if a perl script is put in the background [OT] by almut (Canon) on Nov 18, 2008 at 18:49 UTC
... that's exactly it — Thanks for clearing this up.	[reply]
Re^6: How to know if a perl script is put in the background [OT] by mpeever (Friar) on Nov 19, 2008 at 14:48 UTC
Yes, thank you very much.	[reply]