[Info-vax] CTRL/D Versus CTRL/Z

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Friday, July 1, 2016 at 12:00:36 AM UTC+12, hb wrote:
> On 06/30/2016 09:38 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> No, there was never an equivalent to CTRL/T. I get around that by
>> running multiple terminal sessions, so I can keep an eye on one
>> process using a separate session.
> 
> On some *nix systems (BSD as far as I know and you may need kernel
> support for this to work) you have VSTATUS bound to CTRL/T, man 3 termios:
> ...
> VSTATUS
>        (not in POSIX; not supported under Linux; status request: 024,
>        DC4, Ctrl-T).  Status character (STATUS).  Display status
>        information at terminal, including state of foreground process
>        and amount of CPU time it has consumed.  Also sends a SIGINFO
>        signal (not supported on Linux) to the foreground process
>        group.

Interesting. But, given the range of regular command-line tools you have to get information about processes, perhaps CTRL/T is no big loss anyway...