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Subject: Re: Suspending processes
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Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 17:37:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 26 17:37:05 1987
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Reply-To: mac@esl.UUCP (Mike McNamara)
Organization: ESL, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA.
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In article <803@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>VENIX provides suspend(pid) and resume(pid) system calls, and 'suspend'
>and 'resume' commands.  They're so useful, and so obviously easy to
>implement, I wonder why they never got into System V or BSD.
>-- 
>Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
>Internet: campbell@maynard.uucp             120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
>uucp: {alliant,wjh12}!maynard!campbell              +1 617 367 6846
>ARPA: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvisr.harvard.edu      MCI: LCAMPBELL

in BSD4.{2,3}
suspend:

# suspend a process by pid

kill -STOP pid

resume:

# resume a process by pid

kill -CONT pid 
-- 
 Michael Mc Namara                 
 ESL Incorporated                 
 ARPA: mac%esl@lll-lcc.ARPA