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From: rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Job control, minix upgrades, the universe, and everything...
Message-ID: <1166@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 15 Oct 89 19:36:17 GMT
References: <1989Oct12.193113.10562@watcsc.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Athabasca University
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The really useful things you get out of job control are SIGURG, SIGIO,
SIGSTOP, and SIGCONT.  Tty handling is nice but secondary.  A windows
or virtual-tty hack would do that part of it well enough.  SIGWINCH
would be handy for the windowing stuff.

What about it?  SIGSTOP and SIGCONT should be pretty straight forward.
I wouldn't mind seeing an implementation of (2) select(), either.

Yes, I know, write it yourself.  I promise to start.

	Ross

ps: why do I want SIG{STOP,CONT} ?  Every try to use ^S to stop a job
that wasn't writing to the tty?  Worked pretty poorly, didn't it ;-)?

	r