am I in background?

[Chris Torek]

> Unfortunately, emacs doesn't benefit from this [running until ready
> for input] since it does an ioctl on the terminal (which has similar
> consequences) before it does all of its startup stuff (like reading the
> profile).

Fixable, and fixed even.  Spencer Thomas did some work on Gosling
Emacs long ago to make sure it did not ask for the terminal until
it was ready to use it.

Too bad the C shell does not do the same:  Try `csh &' sometime to
see if it will read your .cshrc before stopping.  Nope.
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