Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Q: jobs?
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In article <376E94D5.2967@dcs.shef.ac.uk>,
Ljubomir Josifovski  <L.Josifovski@dcs.shef.ac.uk> wrote:
>Hi, I have i386 Minix 2.0.2 on a 486/25/8MB RAM & 50MB partition since a
>week ago.
>
>I noticed that ctrl-z doesn't suspend the job, although stty -a shows
>the key is bound to susp. Why is this? Somewhere in the man (or sources)
>kind of remember a note that there is no job control? Is this true?
>Also, man ash mentions that ash supports job control *if* the OS does.
>
>

OSDI v2, p. 272: Job control is not required by POSIX and is not supported
by MINIX. 

(POSIX calls getpgrp and setpgrp exist as required by the standard, but always
fail.)

Is anybody running ash on something other than Minix? 
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