[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 14:21:18 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:

> Things I would like to see in bash on Linux:
> 
> Ctrl-T

The terminal driver is one part of VMS that I remember fondly. But in *nix 
systems, terminal drivers are “character devices”, and there is no concept 
of I/O request packets--unless you do all your driver calls via ioctl, I 
guess.

I don’t feel the need for CTRL/T simply because I have something like a 
dozen or two dozen terminal sessions open at any one time, and it is easy 
enough to check up on a hung-looking process from another session. I can 
even rummage around in procfs to check the status of open files and memory 
usage in the problem process, which is way more than you can do with CTRL/
T anyway.