Swapping [Unix processes]

[Mark Jeghers]

In article <450 at jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> acarter at jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Alfonso Carter) writes:
>Is it possible to take a process between two users and switch them?
>Say user "joe" is editing a file, and "dan" is playing nethack.
>Is it possible to change it so in an instant, joe is playing
>nethack, and dan is editing that file?


If you had a sort of "process supervisor" which routed and controlled the
processes' terminal IO, you could do it.  Similar to a window manager.

Mark Jeghers
Motorola Computer Systems