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From: mark@motcsd.UUCP (Mark Jeghers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Swapping [Unix processes]
Message-ID: <318@greek.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 89 19:33:38 GMT
References: <450@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Reply-To: mark@greek.UUCP (Mark Jeghers)
Organization: Motorola Computer Systems, Cupertino, CA.
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In article <450@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> acarter@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Alfonso Carter) writes:
>Is it possible to take a process between two users and switch them?
>Say user "joe" is editing a file, and "dan" is playing nethack.
>Is it possible to change it so in an instant, joe is playing
>nethack, and dan is editing that file?


If you had a sort of "process supervisor" which routed and controlled the
processes' terminal IO, you could do it.  Similar to a window manager.

Mark Jeghers
Motorola Computer Systems