Eighth Edition and job control (was Re: UNIX Futures)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <559 at basser.oz> john at basser.oz (John Mackin) writes:
>In article <127 at sering.mcvax.UUCP> dpk at sering.UUCP (Doug Kingston) writes:
>> [omitted]

>A Blit is a research terminal, manufactured first at Bell Research
>and then by Teletype exclusively for Bell Research.

I thought a little company in NY (whose name I forget) had the contract?

Another significant difference between the Blit and the 5620 would seem
to be the color of the display; didn't the Blit have a white phosphor?

The word size difference shows up in the existence of both texture
and texture16, yuck.

>Also on terminology, you refer to /dev/proc.  The conventional
>mount point of the Eighth Edition process file system is /proc.
>I do not believe anyone ever mounts it on /dev/proc.

That's probably my fault; I have referred to this as /dev/proc a few
times.  It seemed to me that calling it /proc wouldn't convey the
special nature of the /proc filesystem type.

>You say as much, but then you say you still want to be able to
>stop and restart processes.  On V8, that is as easy as opening
>the process' /proc entry and doing a single ioctl().  No harder
>than doing a kill().  For the purposes you say you use the
>facility, having it generated from a character typed on the
>controlling terminal (^Z) is pretty pointless.  So there's
>no clear advantage there.

??  How do you get the /proc entry open etc. in the first place,
except from a Blit-like terminal where you already have multiple
processes?  It seems to me you need to press some key on a normal
terminal.

>As far as stopping, making a core, and restarting goes, or in
>general for debugging anything, may I recommend the V8 debugger,
>``pi''.

Yes, yes!  When will this be generally available?