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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: job control is a bug, not a feature
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Date: 22 Jun 89 08:42:34 GMT
References: <1989Jun19.204430.6371@utzoo.uucp> <15868@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> <1989Jun21.165326.1650@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1989Jun21.165326.1650@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
writes:
>Nobody, including me -- please *read* my postings, especially the long
>one -- is arguing that the ability to suspend jobs is not useful.  But
>that is about 2% of job control.

Using csh under 4.3BSD, job control as seen by the user (not the kernel
implementor) is approximately

     50% suspending jobs
     50% resuming jobs

(This is a very rough approximation.  An argument could be made that
one should also include about 4% checking the status of jobs, 1%
posting Usenet articles about it, etc.)
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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