Re: [Help-bash] Where the complete behavior of & is documented?

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/18/18 6:03 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi Chet,
> 
>> This is all fundamental to the Posix process model. It's not appropriate to
>> spell it all out in the bash manual.
> 
> I am trying to learn linux process manangement in more detail. Do you
> have any good references that you would recommend?

When Dave Lennert was at HP, he wrote a really good paper about how they
had reconciled the process handling and process group differences between
4.2 BSD and System V. This eventually became the basis of the POSIX
process model.

I'm not going to send it to the mailing list, but you can find a copy at
http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~pcs/apps/bash/job.control.ps.

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