On 16:40 Fri 19 Sep, Brian Drain wrote:
> What does the "suspend" command do? I cannot find a man page on it, or
> entry in the FAQ, or anything useful in the mailing list archives or
> google (seems most deal with laptop suspend/restore).. When I type
> suspend at the cmd line, it drops me past the command line. Can't ^C or
> ^Z or anything out of it. Does it have a purpose? This is being run
> from an i386 desktop and I have no real need for it, just curious about
> it's function.
>
hi!
Looks like it's shell-related job control function, it is nothing
related to an OS.
in ksh(1) it is an alias:
suspend='kill -STOP $$'
for bash(1) it looks like this:
suspend [-f]
Suspend the execution of this shell until it
receives a SIGCONT signal. The -f option says not
to complain if this is a login shell; just suspend
anyway. The return status is 0 unless the shell is
a login shell and -f is not supplied, or if job
control is not enabled.
--
Vladimir Kirillov
