[SOLVED] Executable file unable to run in the background after appending '&'

Dear fellow coders, when I tried to run my vendor framebuffer executable file in the background i.e.
./hifb_sample &, i'm unable to start the program in the background. It shows up the following error as soon as my command line above is executed:

-sh: 0: not found
[1]+ Stopped (tty input) ./sample_hifb

FYI, I'm able to run the .exe file as per normal so the .exe file is working properly. (i.e. ./hifb_sample).

The program requires input from the terminal - yet your use of the & for background detached from the terminal input - which allowed the command interpreter to take it. Thus your "0" went to the command interpreter which told you it couldn't find a program named "0".

If the program doesn't need terminal input you can put it in the background. If all it needs is some initial input you can redirect the input from a file.

If you have to enter something to start it, but it doesn't need anything after that, then you run it in the foreground, give it the input. Once it starts running as a cpu bound process and no longer needs the terminal you can put it in the background by first using the "control Z" key to suspend it. This gives the terminal input back to the command interpreter, where you can give the command "bg" (short for BackGround) which will put it in the background.

Thanks jpollard, manage to got the program running in the background by appending & after the run command. After which I just entered into other programs to run on top of this framebuffer.