Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 08:43 -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote:
> > Let's not print from the kernel.... utilities and shells that care
> > to do something useful w/ SIGINFO can; everything else should ignore it.
>
> so, the original rationale for SIGINFO/control-T printing from the
> kernel was in the days of overloaded academic timesharing systems;
> printing from the kernel was done specifically so the system could
> demonstrate that it was still responding (and brag about how busy it
> was) even if it didn't get around to actually swapping in your processes
> for a while.
sdd and star will immediately use it after recomilation....
> I believe the general feature and key-binding to control-T was copied
> from TOPS-20 and may have originated there.
I am not sure about TOPS-20, I did introduce a status output for SIGQUIT
with sdd and star in 1985. When did TOPS-20 introduce ^T?
Jörg
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