Re: Interactive commands cant be backgrounded if run from bashrc

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 09:28:55PM -0500, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 8:42 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> > I tested with "set -m" and "vim & fg" just now, and it appeared to work.
> 
> Do processes started in .bashrc have a terminal? I would suspect that
> something without a try would either complain or work differently. I'll
> have to play around with it.

As long as bash is started in a terminal: yes.

I also tested with "set -m" and "vim" in my .bashrc file.  Everything
worked as I expected it to.  I launched a terminal (urxvt), and it opened
with vim running.  I was able to Ctrl-Z it.  It looks like this:

[1]+  Stopped                 vim
unicorn:~$ jobs
[1]+  Stopped                 vim
unicorn:~$ ps
    PID TTY          TIME CMD
2100754 pts/30   00:00:00 bash
2100756 pts/30   00:00:00 vim
2100757 pts/30   00:00:00 ps
unicorn:~$ 

I could also "fg" it, and exiting from vim put me into an interactive
bash shell.  Absolutely no surprises at all.