[R-SIG-Mac] 2.14.0 alpha hangs after fg after ctrl-Z

[Vincent Carey]

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> i am running R version 2.14.0 alpha (2011-10-03 r57154) in an X11
> terminal.  i build from source.
> i often use ctrl-Z to pause the session and return to it via fg.  i
> find that R hangs upon fg -- it does not
> respond to ctrl-C and ctrl-\ takes some time to give a shell back.
> Problem is not present in my
> linux build of r57208.

Could this be a consequence of the intention of the build on MacOSX to
be run through
the GUI?  I did not see any configure switches that would lead to an
alternative build that would
allow job control through the shell.

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>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 alpha (2011-10-03 r57154)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.US-ASCII/en_US.US-ASCII/en_US.US-ASCII/C/en_US.US-ASCII/en_US.US-ASCII
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     tools     methods
> [8] base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] BiocInstaller_1.1.28 weaver_1.19.2        codetools_0.2-8
> [4] digest_0.5.1
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