Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery
From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.023934.9258@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 16 Dec 90 02:39:34 GMT
References: <4754@auspex.auspex.com> <1990Dec14.040211.29253@NCoast.ORG> <1990Dec15.022225.2969@kithrup.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Lines: 33

As quoted from <1990Dec15.022225.2969@kithrup.COM> by sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan):
+---------------
| In article <1990Dec14.040211.29253@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
| >Those cretins *would* do something stupid like this.
| 
| So "those cretins" refers to the folks at Berkeley; SCO went along with it,
+---------------

Sorry, I meant the idiots who accepted that into FIPS, not SCO.

+---------------
| On the other hand, FIPS also requires job control (which *does* work in
| 3.2v2, and is quite nice), and I believe it also specifies the sticky-bit on
| directories thingy, which is also nice.
+---------------

Agreed as to the sticky bit.  I still prefer multiple windows to job control,
though.

One question:  are there any known bugs in 3.2.1 job control?  I'm having one
heck of a time trying to make a program to do job control "after the fact"
(it's patterned after shl) because of background tty reads doing various
unexpected things.  Is it the job control, or is it just something I wasn't
able to ferret out of the documentation that I'm missing?  (And where can I
find programmers' docs for job control?)

++Brandon

-- 
Me: Brandon S. Allbery			    VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440
Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG		    Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN
America OnLine: KB8JRR			    AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88]
uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery    Delphi: ALLBERY