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From: blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: GNU BASH supporting POSIX job-control?
Keywords: BASH 1.04.4, POSIX job-control
Message-ID: <543@6sceng.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 90 06:05:25 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.202025.7901@glance.ch> <4226@rossignol.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <4226@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes:
|In article <1990Oct18.202025.7901@glance.ch> david@glance.ch (David
|Mosberger) writes:
|$ Is there a BASH version supporting POSIX job-control? We are currently
|$ using version 1.04.4 on our ULTRIX and SV3 boxes. It would be great if
|$ we could use the job-control facility we have under ULTRIX on System V too.
|Job control isn't in the System V Release 3 kernel, so
|there's nothing you can do (other than upgrade your operating system).

Well, there's not really any such thing as THE System V Release 3 kernel,
as most vendors have dropped their own cruft into the one distributed by
AT&T.  At the least the SCO version has POSIX job control, so a version
of bash should be able to be built providing job control on at least
SCO's SVR3.  Whether it has been or not, I don't know, but it should be
possible.
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Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP