Re: (Buglet) job numbers do not get re-used (sometimes)
Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs |
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| Organization | ITS, Case Western Reserve University |
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On 8/18/26 4:51 PM, Stan Marsh wrote: >> I don't consider it a bug. It would be very low priority as a new feature >> request. > > Oh, it is clearly a bug, Not everything you find inconvenient or annoying, or doesn't work the way you think it should, is a bug. > In fact, it is probably the case that when, many decades ago, job > control was first being designed and coded - probably by some Berkeley > freshman late at night - it was realized that it would be slightly > easier to code it this way, so a pop decision was made to do it that > way, and it has been thus ever since. Your sneering condescension aside, I'm pretty sure Jim Kulp, Bill Joy, and later David Korn were all professionals. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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