Why does starting a process in the background prevent me from recalling previous commands in the command prompt?
- by leeand00
I'm running asynchronous command prompt commands in cmd on Windows 7 64-bit and for some reason it effects my ability to recall previous commands just after I run them; for example:
I might run something like:
start /B rmdir /Q /S .\some_massive_directory
And next I try to press the up arrow to recall the text of the previous command..but nothing happens...is this because whatever data structure is holding my commands is locked by the process I sent to the background, or is it because I am using a network mapped drive to run my command on?