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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: GNU BASH supporting POSIX job-control?
Keywords: BASH 1.04.4, POSIX job-control
Message-ID: <4245@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 6 Nov 90 18:45:12 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.202025.7901@glance.ch> <4226@rossignol.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>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).

Well, *some* S5R3 ports *do* have job control; I think a number of the
386 ports have had - wait for it - POSIX job control added to them.  I
assume that's why he's asking, and why he specifically mentioned POSIX
job control....