Re: notes for 2023 release

[Samuel Thibault]

Sergey Bugaev, le dim. 11 juin 2023 15:13:12 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 2:52 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
> wrote:
> > > This was an important fix; currently ctty handling is completely
> > > broken in Debian.
> >
> > How does it manifest in practice?
> 
> A background process that tries to read (or write, if TOSTOP is set,
> which you can do with 'stty tostop') the terminal is not stopped with
> a signal, but instead competes for consuming the input with the
> foreground process. Try this:
> 
> $ (sleep 5 && cat > /dev/null) &
> $ <do something else for a while>

Ok, I have now backported it to debian's 2.36 series, and it'll get into
the 2.37 series too.

Samuel