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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Job Control (a la csh/ksh) from within C
Message-ID: <1989Oct3.153120.4750@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1719@zen.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 89 15:31:20 GMT

In article <1719@zen.co.uk> vic@zen.co.uk (Victor Gavin) writes:
>...my understanding of how job control works is sadly lacking.
>Can anyone point me towards a book/manual/paper which explains how to
>control jobs *properly* from within a C program?

Well, the *proper* way to control jobs is not to fool around with
abominations like BSD job control, but to do something sensible like a
window system that lets you interact with multiple processes without
ornate kludges.  However, that probably isn't what you wanted...
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