Re: Questions about the pager

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Jan-2007, John Swensen wrote:

| I was still interested, and that was the perfect solution.  The rest of 
| my code was taken from your previous example on the list a couple of 
| months back.  All I had to do was add the fork and subsequent checks for 
| child/parent.  Thank you very much.  That was one of the existing bugs 
| that made the IDE somewhat unusable.  I will get that checked in as soon 
| as possible.

One problem I see with the code I posted is that it unconditionally
detaches the entire program from the terminal in which it is started.
That is a bit unusual, so to get this to function more like a normal
program (ability to suspend/restart/background/foreground/kill from
the terminal) I think more is needed.  I'm not sure exactly what.
Maybe the parent needs to continue running so it can respond to
signals and pass them on to the child.

jwe