Re: Terminal hang when bg/fg root shell on OS X

["James F. Hranicky" <jfh@cise.ufl.edu>]

On Saturday 11 February 2006 14:55, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Feb 10,  2:45pm, James F. Hranicky wrote:
> }
> } When I background then foreground a root shell on OS X I get
> } a terminal error:
>
> The "exec zsh" is a contributing factor here.
>
> I suspect that you're running into a combination of problems with the
> tty's controlling process having changed and with the fact that a
> process owned by a normal user (parent shell, before the "su") can't
> send a signal to a process owned by root.
>
> Either change root's shell to zsh permanently, or try using
>
> 	su -l -c zsh
>
> instead of exec'ing zsh after the fact.

I can't suspend login shells, though :->

Even running su -c zsh gives the same terminal problem. 

Fortunately, 

	sudo zsh

seems to work just fine with backgrounding and foregrounding.

Thanks,
Jim