Job Control (a la csh/ksh) from within C

Snoopy snoopy at sopwith.UUCP
Thu Oct 5 02:00:03 AEST 1989


In article <1989Oct3.153120.4750 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

| Well, the *proper* way to control jobs is not to fool around with
| abominations like BSD job control, but to do something sensible like a
| window system that lets you interact with multiple processes without
| ornate kludges.  However, that probably isn't what you wanted...

Henry, Henry, Henry.  Job control is necessary even with a window system.
Otherwise how does one stop a process without killing it?

| Nature is blind; Man is merely
| shortsighted (and improving).

Distance != time.

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