[openbeos] Re: OpenBeOS Applications
- From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:31:18 EST (-0500)
> > how much Posix compliance ends up in the kernel. BeOS
> > had pretty good compliance (and, IMHO, good choices on which
> > feature sets to implement), but left out two very important things:
> >
> > 1. STOP and CONT (i.e. CTRL-Z and job control)
>
> Does BeOS support POSIX-like signals and Process Groups?
>
> If so, this is a matter of the tty (terminal) keeping track of the
> current "foreground" process group and sending the appropriate
> signal(s) to each process in the group when the appropriate key is
> pressed., then bringing the shell (bash) to the foreground.
>
> Job control should be a function of the shell (bash).
Terminals really don't need to do another but do terminal-emu on a
datastream, and pop open a pty. You don't need to bring anything to the
foreground (just start bash), nor screen keystrokes (the pty handles
this). And the BeOS does support POSIX signals.
-Nathan
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