UNIX Futures

[Larry Campbell]

> It's also nice to be able to stop things some times.  If I have just
> gotten part way into a "make" and I remember that I missed something, I
> just stop the "make" while it fix the problem.  I also like having the
> option of stopping a suspected run-away process instead of blowing it
> out of the water.  Would you drive a car without brakes?
> --
> Griff Smith	AT&T (Bell Laboratories), Murray Hill
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It is nice to be able to pause things sometimes.  I think this is a
VENIX enhancement, but VENIX has suspend and resume commands (and the
corresponding system calls) to pause and then resume a process.  Yes,
it is a bit more of a pain to go to another window, run ps, then issue
a suspend command.

I'd like to have job control.  But given a choice between job control
and windows, I'll take windows.
-- 
Larry Campbell                                 The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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