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From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: job control is a bug, not a feature
Keywords: dmr's past view:
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Date: 8 Jun 89 19:38:55 GMT
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Part of a summary paragraph of some thoughts from DMR regarding
Job Control (net.unix.wizards: 12 apr 86): [I do not have the whole
article on line anymore]

> My impression is that BSD job control is something that was
> put in by expedient means in order to achieve a certain effect, and the
> effect is excellent, within the serious limitations of the mechanism.
> SV job control was done with a cleaner conceptual foundation, but with
> a less lucid view of what it is for, and less effort devoted to making
> it useful. Indeed, I suspect it is not much used.

oz
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