From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris McGee Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 19:33:44 -0400 Message-Id: <9D0254D2-6739-4260-B903-48D2D57E7816@gmail.com> To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: [9fans] Backgrounding a task Topicbox-Message-UUID: c1bc1abc-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi All, When I'm using Unix, there's a workflow that I use for long running commands= that I'm hoping to find the equivalent in the Plan 9 way of doing things. I will occasionally run a command, realize that it will take a long time to c= omplete. I don't want to kill it. I'll just Ctrl-Z and bg to put it into the= background using the shell. It's almost as if I had run it with '&' in the f= irst place. I can then run other commands in the same working directory, env= ironment and shell history. Is there an equivalent to this workflow in Plan 9? I realize that the whole job control system dates back to old single session= terminals, which isn't a problem with Rio where you can draw new windows at= will. Initially I thought, that you just drag that window to a corner somew= here and let it complete. But, if I draw a new window it won't be in the sam= e working directory, have the same environment and namespace. Maybe there is= a way to create a window that inherits these from an existing process? Chris=