Re: Not a bug - just an idea: 'Str-z & bg' @once

[Paul Jarc]

Robert Michel <Robert.Michel@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Imagine for cdrecord or rec is an interupt not realy perfect ;).
> So I would propose 'Strg-b' for 'Strg-z & bg' @once.

It's not possible.  bash would have no way of knowing that Ctrl-b was
typed during the time that another process was in the foreground.

> 'screen cdrecord.....' helps but then you have to know it
> in advance that the new process my be to be moved to bg.

You could do "screen bash" even earlier (e.g., from your startup
scripts).  Then when you start a job and later decide you want to
leave it in the background, you can start a new shell, even if you
didn't do anything special when starting that job.


paul