From: steve.kilbane@ind.alstom.com
To: Elliott Hughes <Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com>
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: backgrounded jobs
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:00:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C125678C.00788D17.00@mz02world.hq.dtr.gecalsthom.fr> (raw)
On 10/06/99 10:48:06 Elliott Hughes wrote:
> 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?
Mutter, grumble. Doesn't sound right to me - not in rc. It sounds more es-ish to
me. :-)
Mind you, I'm the one who made Wily's no-arg Kill print a list of the likely
Kill commands, so who am I to complain?
And I don't even use rc, so my opinion doesn't even count.
steve
next reply other threads:[~1999-06-14 0:43 UTC|newest]
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1999-06-10 22:00 steve.kilbane [this message]
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1999-06-14 13:23 Elliott Hughes
1999-06-10 9:48 Elliott Hughes
1999-06-11 13:17 ` Gerry.Tomlinson
1999-06-14 11:53 ` Tim Goodwin
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