Why no job control in 386/ix?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sun Nov 19 21:43:04 AEST 1989


In article <3880 at amelia.nas.nasa.gov> izen at cwru.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
>The C-shell which was included with 386/ix (a system V UNIX for 386 boxes)
>does not support job control.  Is this because
>	1) The kernel is missing something required to support it,

That's it.
The horrible kludges needed for job control are rumored to be present
in SVR4.0.



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