[TUHS] FD 2

Ralph Corderoy ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Tue Jan 31 02:18:57 AEST 2023


Hi Bakul,

> > 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 I lacked job control in that situation, I'd either SIGSTOP one of the
two with kill(1) for a later SIGCONT or renice it to hardly get a look
in until its peer had finished.  (The TTY's susp character for job
control is SIGTSTP.)

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.


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