In article <1993Jul30.054625.29889@pdact.pd.necisa.oz.au> dbell@pdact.pd.necisa.oz.au (David I. Bell) writes:
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>Here is my CTRL-T status line patch for 0.99.pl11.  For those of you
>who don't know what this feature is, here is a quick description of it:
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>When ^T is typed on a terminal, a line of output is printed by the kernel
>which gives the status of the most recently running program in the terminal's
>process group.  An example of such an output line is:
>
>pid 2818 (cc1) cpu 26.38 mem 1456/1346 pgft 385 pc 57ddf running

BSD 4.3+ and 4.4 (to my knowledge) implement ^T as SIGINFO or SIGSTATUS
or something like that (I don't have the docs here) to the foreground
process group, which can then print out some nice status info. It might
be a good idea to add this behaviour, then again it might not...

        Tjl