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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: GNU BASH supporting POSIX job-control?
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.010641.12971@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 7 Nov 90 01:06:41 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.202025.7901@glance.ch> <4226@rossignol.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <4226@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> by tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold):
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| 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).
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SCO UNIX, among others, provides kernel job control --- but it is POSIX job
control, which is subtly (but incompatibly) different from BSD job control.
I, too, would like to see this added to BASH.

++Brandon
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