kill -s STOP $$ I thought that command was really great. I honestly thought the kill command was sending the stop signal to itself. This seemed a bit of a revelation to me. That that kind of thing could happen.
But as always the reality is different to what's in my head. It turns out, the kill command below is actually sending the stop signal to the shell it is running in. open two xterms, in the first type: echo $$ The number displayed is the PID (process ID) of the shell (ie BASH/DASH/CSH/etc). Remember the number. kill -s STOP $$ in the second terminal type: kill -s CONT nnnn Where nnnn is the number you were told to remember, ie the PID of the shell you stopped with the kill command from within. continued from within. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
