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From: Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] no job control; thank you!
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:30:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207181830.g6IIUmMd060625@nike.ins.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <723315de1376d3aa7b828f93a205fe5b@collyer.net>

In article <723315de1376d3aa7b828f93a205fe5b@collyer.net> you write:
>I'd like to thank all the Plan 9 developers for keeping job control
>out of Plan 9.  I've just had a close encounter with job control after
>many years away from Unix (hey, somebody has to clean the sewers), and
>the complexity and botched implementation(s) of that bad idea are
>mind-boggling.  I finally gave up.

What were you looking at?

Chet


-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet )

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/


  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-18 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-18  3:23 Geoff Collyer
2002-07-18 18:30 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2002-07-18  3:49 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-18 14:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 14:53 forsyth
2002-07-18 15:02 rog
2002-07-18 14:13 ` Sam
2002-07-18 16:19 ` matt
2002-07-18 16:34   ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-18 21:37     ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2002-07-30  5:11 Russ Cox
2002-07-30 16:18 David Gordon Hogan

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