Re: Linux doing "cooperative multitasking"?

Thayne Harbaugh (Thayne_Harbaugh@lardav.com)
Wed, 27 Nov 1996 07:20:12 -0700


> From bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Wed Nov 27 02:05:42 1996
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Linux doing "cooperative multitasking"?
>
>
> Hallo,
>
> I use Netscape Version 3.01 on Linux 2.0.25 and XFree 86-3.1.2.F. (Well now
> it is Xfree 86-3.2)
> At present I preload libc.so.5.0.9 and libXpm.so.4.6, but I had the problems
> with libc.so.5.3.12 and libXpm.so.4.7 too. Here my problem ( or better
> observation).
>
> I start netscape on an rxvt-Term. I forgot to send it in the Background by
> not giving "&" at the end of the command line. So I hit "^Z" on the terminal I
> started netscape. Nothing happens for a long time or at all.

After you hit ^Z did you put the process in the background with "bg"?

Thayne Harbaugh
President PLUG
Provo Linux Users' Group
www.plug.org