[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> 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.
>

FreeBSD supports it, and as already mentioned, it's implemented there
as a signal.

> 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.

Programs can intercept Ctrl-T and output program-specific information.

Simon.

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