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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: UNIX Futures
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 15:25:05 EST
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> It's also nice to be able to stop things some times...

The ability to stop processes is quite independent of all the other goo
in job control, in concept at least.  Adding something like this to SysV
would probably be a five-minute hack (given sources!).  You need to have
another context around before you can actually do anything to stopped
processes, but a window system is just right for that.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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