Re: A background ssh can take over the tty from bash?

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/10/17 10:19 AM, Clark Wang wrote:

> If I kill the "ssh -o ControlMaster=no -o ControlPath=/tmp/socket.tmp
> 127.0.0.1 sleep 9999" then tty #1 (pts/11) would be able to accept my input
> again. Seems like the background "ssh" at tty #1 is consuming all input. I
> cannot understand this since it should be stopped by SIGTTIN if it tries to
> read from the tty.

This has come up before. You need to use `ssh -n' to avoid it reading from
stdin. Processes can ignore SIGTTIN, and ssh does so to avoid being stopped
if it reads from the tty while in the background.

Chet
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