From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] no job control; thank you! From: "rob pike, esq." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:49:15 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf8544c0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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. I never liked job control; it seemed like the wrong answer to the problem of managing multiple processes. When I first saw windows, even though the system they were on didn't have processes, a light bulb went off in my head: *that* is the right answer. And it was. -rob