Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:44:55 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: Gary <medmanks@mindspring.com>, Peter <peterk@americanisp.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to Resume a Suspended Process Message-ID: <14886.58999.949219.141331@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <00113023231505.02830@buffy> References: <14885.50923.235065.639125@guru.mired.org> <00113023231505.02830@buffy>
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Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> types: > On Thursday 30 November 2000 04:18, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Gary <medmanks@mindspring.com> types: > > > >> Occasionally, I have accidentally hit cntrl-Z when trying to hit > > > >> cntrl-C. Cntrl-Z suspends whatever process I was running and returns > > > >> me to the command prompt. How can I resume the suspended process? > > > Can also type %(name of program) to bring it back (at least in Linux) > > This is a feature of the shell, not the OS. Bash, csh and FreeBSD's > > /bin/csh all support it. > Mmm, well it does require OS support to work, to be accurate... Well, suspend/resume requires OS support. But whether any shell supports the "%(name of program)" feature for doing a resume is a shell feature; the OS has nothing to do with that. And if the OS doesn't do suspend/resume, the the problem with C-Z that started the thread would never happen :-). <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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