Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: job control is a bug, not a feature
Message-ID: <1989Jun23.214845.4479@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jun19.204430.6371@utzoo.uucp> <15868@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> <1989Jun21.165326.1650@utzoo.uucp> <7881@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 21:48:45 GMT

In article <7881@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) 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	...

The kernel implementor, and the systems programmer in general, is what
I was talking about.
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