process group question

[Martin Kirk]

>From article <1336 at gapprd.gapos.bt.co.uk>, by steve at gapos.bt.co.uk (Steve A Rooke):
> With all this talk about job-control I feel like a poor relation still
> working on an AT&T (based) SVR2 :-)

You get it all in V.4 (everything you ever heard of is in there!!)

> So that's what all those funny kill/ioctl calls do, I thought they were
> just something to make BSD look better :-) * :-) <thats a smilley squared

Actually, the BSD job contol was fairly brain-damaged. It did not
preserve terminal modes between job sitches. The System V shell layers
code got this right. Frankly, job control is simply just poor-mans
windows.

> How about a `bt.i.wish.i.had' newsgroup.  It would go down a bundle here.

Now theres a thought. Any suggestions.

Martin

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