Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!crash!pnet01!jca From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: job control is a bug, not a feature Message-ID: <4323@crash.cts.com> Date: 9 Jun 89 00:16:15 GMT Sender: news@crash.cts.com Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA Lines: 20 I don't understand your prejudice against job control. If you mean job control via the csh and BSD UNIX then arguing that it isn't any good is like a two year old arguing over what his favorite flavor of ice cream is. Whether or not you want job control and the csh in Minix is your business, but there are some of us who do. I hate SysV Unix because of its lack of job control, there are times when I want to do a ^Z and suspend a job just to find out what the (*bleep*) is going on with the rest of the system, then I go put it in the background or do something else. Job control is a nice feature of the user controlling his/her processes and since enough of us here are fond of BSD Unix, it's obviously a well used feature of the csh. /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------* * That's not an operating system, this is an operating system! *--------------------------------------------------------------------------* * UUCP: {nosc ucsd hplabs!hp-sdd}!crash!pnet01!jca * APRA: crash!pnet01!jca@nosc.mil * INET: jca@pnet01.cts.com *--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ #include