Job Control (a la csh/ksh) from within C

[Paul Raveling]

In article <1989Oct6.164830.5856 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry
Spencer) writes:
> In article <320 at sopwith.UUCP> snoopy at sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
> >| Well, the *proper* way to control jobs is not to fool around with
> >| abominations like BSD job control, but to do something sensible like a
> >| window system that lets you interact with multiple processes without
> >| ornate kludges.  However, that probably isn't what you wanted...
> >
> >Henry, Henry, Henry.  Job control is necessary even with a window system.
> >Otherwise how does one stop a process without killing it?
> 
> One tells the system to suspend it.  Yes, this does require some sort of
> facility for doing so.  No, it does not require mysterious signals with
> bizarre semantics, magic control characters, or any of the other sludge
> that job control brings along.  You've got other windows, remember -- you
> can use one of them to request the suspension, and to fiddle with the
> process thereafter.

	Right on!

	There've been a number of decent-to-good examples of
	this sort of facility, but I haven't seen one yet in
	a Unix system.

	P.S.:  It's easier to implement good process/job control
	if you slip a more capable kernel underneath Unix instead
	of building a kludge over it.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling at isi.edu