Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] background understanding
Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 2020, 19:33:45

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
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    > Is the major difference when implementing a background command just that
    > the parent process doesn't wait for the child to complete? ...

Correct.
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    > Is there anywhere we can read about these processes? I could not find a
    > good explanation in the online chapters stated in the spec (and actually
    > the same with pipelines).

See the lecture notes, the recorded lectures, and
the links on the class web page.

--Stan-