On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:14:04PM -0600, Tom Whiting wrote: > >>Oh, and it's pretty stupid to run make in the background. > Hmm, I'll bite.. Why?
- You can't interrupt it except by killing it or bringing it to the front and then ^C it. - You don't know if it's finished except by pressing enter and waiting for the Exit message. - What are you going to do in the mean time? Running "jobs" so you can see if it is still running? - If you accidently ^D you've lost the jobs and its output forever. etc Daemons, servers and batch-programs are supposed to go into the background. Programs with output to stdout or stderr are not. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/
