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- From: seismo!mcvax!jack
- Organization: AMOEBA project, CWI, Amsterdam
- Last-Band-Seen: Eton Crop, That Petrol Emotion (Paradiso, 30-09).
- Opinion-Of-Them: Two good and honest guitar bands....
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 23:39:03 +0100
-
- I waited for some time, thinking someone else would point this out,
- but nobody did, so here goes:
-
- *CURRENT JOB CONTROL IMPLEMENTATIONS ARE HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE!
- HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!*
-
- After reading David Lennart's (sp?) article on 4.2 job control,
- SYSV shell layers, and HP-UX's hybrid I was shocked, I must admit.
-
- Both solutions are filled with horrible tricks like closing
- tty's and re-opening them and then doing funny ioctl()s and the closing
- them again and then reopening then and then...
-
- It is of course a praiseworthy feat that the folks at HP managed to
- sqeeze those two horrible, inconsistent, unintellegible mechanisms
- into one poor kernel, but I'm afraid the result is horrible**2.
-
- I think that, if nobody can come up with a nice&clean subset of
- job control facilities, that will allow sysV and BSD semantics to
- be implemented on top of them, we should forget about standardising
- anything. Standardising bad mechanisms will only hinder progress
- (Did I hear someone say F77? X25?).
-
- >From now on, you can find me in the "job control is horrible" camp.
- --
- Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
- The shell is my oyster.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 10
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