Re: (Buglet) job numbers do not get re-used (sometimes)

Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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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