On 16:40 Fri 19 Sep, Brian Drain wrote: > What does the "suspend" command do? I cannot find a man page on it, or > entry in the FAQ, or anything useful in the mailing list archives or > google (seems most deal with laptop suspend/restore).. When I type > suspend at the cmd line, it drops me past the command line. Can't ^C or > ^Z or anything out of it. Does it have a purpose? This is being run > from an i386 desktop and I have no real need for it, just curious about > it's function. >
hi! Looks like it's shell-related job control function, it is nothing related to an OS. in ksh(1) it is an alias: suspend='kill -STOP $$' for bash(1) it looks like this: suspend [-f] Suspend the execution of this shell until it receives a SIGCONT signal. The -f option says not to complain if this is a login shell; just suspend anyway. The return status is 0 unless the shell is a login shell and -f is not supplied, or if job control is not enabled. -- Vladimir Kirillov