Subject: Re: ^W killed my line
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/01/2000 22:33:12
>I don't know what planet you're from, but I still have plenty of
>commands that take longer than fifteen seconds to complete.  The
>fastest NetBSD machine I've ever used still took over an hour to "make
>build".  And I relatively often do over-the-net compares which I would
>like to auto-suspend things upon completion of - exactly the sort of
>thing the dsuspc is designed for.  Yet I don't think I've seen an OS
>dsuspc has worked on in the last decade, not since mtXinu 4.3+NFS and
>possibly not even there - I forget.

if it does what i think it does (send a tstp to a process when it next
asks for input), then i think solaris has it working the way you
expect.  just an fyi...

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