[TUHS] FD 2

[Larry McVoy]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 08:03:42AM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
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> > On Jan 30, 2023, at 7:18 AM, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > There was no job control on plan9 and I can't say I ever missed it.
> 
> Just yesterday I realized running two ???make -j 8??? in parallel was making
> them both go real slow so I  stopped one of them with ^Z and continued
> it once the other make finished. This use case can???t be handled with more
> windows.

If you don't have job control, do you not have ^C to kill one of the
make jobs?  I guess you open another window and ps and kill it but
if the machine is already thrashing that is gonna be unpleasant.
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