* Jeff Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just something I've been wondering about:
>
> I know it's possible to push a running job into the background with
> ctrl-z. But that stops the job too. Is it possible to keep it running,
> as if you'd invoked it with a &?
>
> As I understand it, saying "foo &" forks foo off as a separate process,
> whereas just saying "foo" runs foo as a child (?) process with the same
> pid as the parent. The question then becomes, is it possible to make it
> seem as if a child process becomes detached from it's parent?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Jeff
$ mpg123 Binary_Finary-1998.mp3
[...]
Playing MPEG stream from Binary_Finary-1998.mp3 ...
^Z
[1]+ Stopped mpg123 -b 4096 Binary_Finary-1998.mp3
$ bg 1
[1]+ mpg123 -b 4096 Binary_Finary-1998.mp3 &
Okay?
Then use fg to bring it back.
Tom.
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