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suspend needs child guard cap


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: suspend needs child guard cap
Date: 04 Jan 2001 10:23:32 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7

Just the other day I was in an xterm, actually an rxvt, window, and
typed 'suspend' thinking i was in a sub-shell [e.g. su] or something.
Well, I wasn't and the window naturally hung, all my jobs now
inaccessible [can't get back in via fg, etc...

Therefore some kind of safety guard should be placed upon suspend,
just like a similar concept that warns you of jobs still running when
you hit C-d.  Sure, we should check the shell level that we can put in
the prompt, etc. but still, this fatal command should have a default
warning in the case of it being about to freeze the shell forever.
mandrake 7.2 bash 2.04.12(1)-release (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu)
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