[9211] in Athena Bugs
Re: zwrite ^Z bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Apr 16 09:19:13 1992
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 09:18:26 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: mosquito@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [9209]
Thank you for submitting your bug report.
What you describe is not, in fact, a bug in zwrite or in any shell.
Instead, it is an intentional functionality of the tty driver in the
kernel. The driver intentionally throws away any "pending input"
(i.e., input that has not been sent to the process controlling the
terminal) when it receives one of several command characters (such as
^Z to suspend, ^C to interrupt, etc.).
This is not likely to change, especially since it is the correct
behavior in many situations.
Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance
