Bug#558763: cpulimit: badly interacts with interactive shell

2009-12-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:36:01 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: This is most likely unavoidable with the current design. In that case, please at least put a prominent warning in the documentation. Ack; do you happen to have a proposed wording for the manpage? Alas, no. No worries, we'll come up with

Bug#558763: cpulimit: badly interacts with interactive shell

2009-12-01 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:49:50 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: Because cpulimit uses SIGSTOP/SIGCONT, it breaks interactive shell: Nice catch! This is most likely unavoidable with the current design. In that case, please at least put a prominent warning in the documentation. Ack; do you happen to

Bug#558763: cpulimit: badly interacts with interactive shell

2009-12-01 Thread Jakub Wilk
* gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org, 2009-12-01, 19:09: Because cpulimit uses SIGSTOP/SIGCONT, it breaks interactive shell: Nice catch! This is most likely unavoidable with the current design. In that case, please at least put a prominent warning in the documentation. Ack; do you happen to

Bug#558763: cpulimit: badly interacts with interactive shell

2009-11-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: cpulimit Version: 1.1-11 Severity: normal Because cpulimit uses SIGSTOP/SIGCONT, it breaks interactive shell: $ cpulimit -e dd -l 50 /dev/null [1] 766 $ touch foo; dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1000; touch bar [2]+ Stopped dd if=/dev/urandom