login shell suspend

[rjshaw at ramius.llnl.gov]

Hi.

Who knows the history behind "Can't suspend a login shell (yet)."

Is there a day when we will be able to do so, or is the "yet" a joke
that I don't understand? When I rlogin somewhere and <RET> ~ CNTL-Z <RET>
isn't that a suspension of the login shell on the remote machine? Isn't
suspension just sleeping?

No, I haven't read either of the internals books yet, but I'm planning
to get to the Berkeley one any day now [ half :-)  half :-( ]

Thanx in advance for responses

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