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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why no job control in 386/ix?
Keywords: job control,system V
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.024756.24645@virtech.uucp>
Date: 20 Nov 89 02:47:56 GMT
References: <3880@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <3880@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Steven H. Izen) writes:
> The C-shell which was included with 386/ix (a system V UNIX for 386 boxes)
> does not support job control.  Is this because

This is because job control is a BSDism that has never been part of vanilla
System V unix systems.  It will be present in system V release 4.0 (available
some time next year). 

Job control requires kernel support that is not present in the 386/ix kernel.

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