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From: jdb9608@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.D. Beutel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Unix Windows
Summary: no uw without job control
Keywords: SysV uw job control
Message-ID: <2990@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 1 May 90 21:46:25 GMT
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Reply-To: jdb9608@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.D. Beutel)
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In article <1396@carroll1.cc.edu> dnewton@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Newton the Late) writes:
>   So, if anyone has a SysV version of the unix window host side, let me
>(us) know...
>
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I don't think `uw` is possible without job control.

Since I sometimes use it at school, I wanted to use it
on co-op, but they had various System V versions
which could not handle pseudo-terminals (`uw` needs pty's).
Without pty's, signals would not work (interupts, stops, etc)
because any SIG would go to every process you're running,
not just the ones in whatever window you're currently using.
Without the ability to create different process groups,
`uw` can't work the way it was intended.

So, a re-write of the tty device drivers and some of Un*x itself
is required for SysV, I think.  Has anyone undertaken this?

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