Hello Jan Schaumann. Thanks for your bug report.
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 08:44:51PM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote: > Package: util-linux > Version: 2.20.1-1ubuntu3.1 > > more(1) may attempt to call tsetattr(3) on stderr even if its process is > not in a process group with a controlling terminal. As a result, > SIGTTOU will be generated, suspending the process. > > The following example illustrates the issue: > > $ /bin/sh -c "timeout 60 /bin/sh -c \"ls | more\"" [...] If I'm not mistaken this testcase makes me think that the problem is still there in util-linux 2.28.2-1. Could you please contact upstream directly about this issue? http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#util-linux Regards, Andreas Henriksson