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From: jonah@db.toronto.edu (Jeffrey Lee)
Subject: Re: Job control, minix upgrades, the universe, and everything...
Message-ID: <1989Oct15.232314.15345@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
References: <1989Oct12.193113.10562@watcsc.waterloo.edu> <1166@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 16 Oct 89 03:23:14 GMT

rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander) writes:

>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.
>
>I wouldn't mind seeing an implementation of (2) select(), either.

Most people have no bone to pick with these.  It's SIGTSTP and all of
the goo related to having to suspend a process that tries to write to
a terminal when it's not its turn.
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