I'm looking for a few people who are willing to take a look at my
changes to add job control to Linux and test them out.  The ideal alpha
tester is someone who is willing to try out these changes and see if 1)
they can find some way of using job control which breaks my
implementation, 2) if they conflict with changes they are planning to make
to the kernel (mostly changes in exit.c and signal.c, with additional
changes in tty_io.c, tty_ioctl.c, sys.c, and open.c), and/or 3) if they
reasonably correspond with other implementations of job control,
particularily BSD 4.3 and Sys V.

I make no guarantees about the correctness of these patches, and any
future patches which I send out will be relative to Linux 0.11, NOT
to these alpha patches.  The main reason why I want people to try them
out is that I've implemented job control almost entirely from the POSIX
spec, and I would other people to check to see if my interpretation of
the POSIX spec is compatible with the rest of the world.

If you feel up to trying them out, please let me know.  If you want to
look at the changes before deciding, they can be found in
TSX-11:~ftp/ALPHA/jobcontrol.  One generic bug which will hit when you
try this is out is that apparently there is a bug with how gcc handles
signals.  If you send gcc a SIGCONT (you don't even need to stop it
first), it will die with an IOT trap.  I suspect gcc needs to be
recompiled with a recent libc.a to fix this problem.  

						- Ted