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- Submitted-by: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
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- In article <1991Jul22.210828.23994@uunet.uu.net>, karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
- > POSIX sessions were invented because, when the working
- > group tried to write a specification for job control, they
- > discovered that the BSD behavior was underspecified and
- > inconsistent. They chose invention as the lesser of two
- > evils rather than standardize on something that was wrong.
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- How about just leaving it out altogether?
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- Seriously... what is so compelling about job control that it *must* be
- put into POSIX.2?
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- [ I think Peter means .1 -- mod ]
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