POSIX job control, etc

[Chris Torek]

In article <14478 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>... capsule summary:  BSD job control is a horrible kludge that never
>did work right

Well, that depends on your definition of `work' :-)

Seriously, it does its job, but it is insecure and terribly difficult to
program.  (POSIX job control is also insecure, but only to `denial of
service' type attacks---the problem is that user code allocates process
group identifiers; this should be done by the system---and is also rather
excessively difficult to program.  It does otherwise work, mostly.)
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