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From: peter@orfeo.radig.de (Peter Radig)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: GNU BASH supporting POSIX job-control?
Keywords: BASH 1.04.4, POSIX job-control
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.231801.1706@orfeo.radig.de>
Date: 6 Nov 90 23:18:01 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.202025.7901@glance.ch> <4226@rossignol.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Peter Radig EDV-Beratung, Frankfurt, West Germany
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In <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 that the shell gives you hooks into support that the kernel
>provides.  If it isn't in the kernel, the shell can't do anything to
>give it to you.  Job control isn't in the System V Release 3 kernel, so
>there's nothing you can do (other than upgrade your operating system).

But Interactive's Sys V 3.2 Rel 2.2 DOES support POSIX-style job control
and I'm interested in this Bash modifications, too, since I tried it
to change the source but didn't succeed.

Peter
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