From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 23:49:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A9237B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:49:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 141kx7-0002Oc-00; Fri, 01 Dec 2000 07:49:53 +0000 To: Mike Meyer , Cliff Sarginson , Gary , Peter , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: How to Resume a Suspended Process Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:49:53 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.20 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Cliff Sarginson types: > > On Thursday 30 November 2000 04:18, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Gary types: > > > > >> Occasionally, I have accidentally hit cntrl-Z when trying to hit > > > > >> cntrl-C. Cntrl-Z suspends whatever process I was running and returns > > > > >> me to the command prompt. How can I resume the suspended process? > > > > Can also type %(name of program) to bring it back (at least in Linux) > > > This is a feature of the shell, not the OS. Bash, csh and FreeBSD's > > > /bin/csh all support it. > > Mmm, well it does require OS support to work, to be accurate... > > Well, suspend/resume requires OS support. But whether any shell > supports the "%(name of program)" feature for doing a resume is a > shell feature; the OS has nothing to do with that. And if the OS > doesn't do suspend/resume, the the problem with C-Z that started the > thread would never happen :-). > > touche ! .. ok .. everyone got it now :) (smarty pants !) > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message