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Re: can't suspend out of read


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: can't suspend out of read
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 11:02:29 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)

Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu> wrote:
>> Hurmf, Can't suspend
>> $ read important_variable_1 important_variable_2
>> with C-z.
>
> Of course not.  `read' is a shell builtin.  No separate process
> is spawned to execute it.

Builtins could be made suspendable.  Dunno if it would be worth the
effort, though.


paul



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