[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Dan Cross]

In article <unhl0h$3ca$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>
>>Things I would like to see in bash on Linux:
>>
>>Ctrl-T
>
>That IS a cool thing, I agree.  I remember running BRL Unix on an 11/730,
>which I think was 4.1BSD with a lot of additional stuff from the Army 
>Ballistics Research Lab, and one of the features was a ctrl-T to show
>process status.  I have no idea how it was implemented and what signal
>ugliness was involved, though.

BSD still supports this; SIGINFO is the signal.  Of course, it
has to be caught by the program and the program has to elect to
do something intelligent with it, and many do not.

	- Dan C.