Re: backgrounded jobs

["Gerry.Tomlinson" <Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk>]

> 
> 
> something i had in my own hacked-about copy of
> Byron's rc is a line that output not just the pid of
> a backgrounded job, rather the string "kill %i\n", on
> the basis that this was the number one use of the
> pid. it's particularly handy in 9term, but probably
> just as useful in xterm.
> 
> how would people feel about making this part of
> the distribution? i admit that it looks odd at first
> because traditional shells don't work like that; you
> probably have to know why its saying that not to
> be disconcerted by it, but i think its usefulness
> outweighs this, not least because rc users aren't
> likely to be neophyte shell users who want
> everything to be just like it is in sh (or bash these
> days, i suppose).

who's to say kill is the number one use of the pid? 
there are other uses such as ps l and strace -p 
but i wouldn't want them displayed automatically either.

gerry

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