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[manual] Job control is no longer optional.
Job control was made mandatory in POSIX.1-2001: compare <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989775/xsh/unistd.h.html> with <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/unistd.h.html>. Seventeen years later, we need not devote an entire manual @node to warning people that this was once an optional POSIX feature. * manual/job.texi (Job Control is Optional): Remove node, as job control has not been optional in quite some time. (Job Control): Mention briefly that systems older than POSIX.1-2001 might not support job control. * manual/conf.texi (_POSIX_JOB_CONTROL): Will always be defined on systems conforming to POSIX.1-2001.
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2 files changed, 11 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/manual/conf.texi b/manual/conf.texi
index dbd1d30..f959b00 100644
--- a/manual/conf.texi
+++ b/manual/conf.texi
@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ supported; use @code{sysconf} to find out. @xref{Sysconf}.
If this symbol is defined, it indicates that the system supports job
control. Otherwise, the implementation behaves as if all processes
within a session belong to a single process group. @xref{Job Control}.
+Systems conforming to the 2001 revision of POSIX, or newer, will
+always define this symbol.
@end deftypevr
@deftypevr Macro int _POSIX_SAVED_IDS
diff --git a/manual/job.texi b/manual/job.texi
index 944967a..e304313 100644
--- a/manual/job.texi
+++ b/manual/job.texi
@@ -19,9 +19,15 @@ You need to be familiar with concepts relating to process creation
Handling}) in order to understand this material presented in this
chapter.
+@vindex _POSIX_JOB_CONTROL
+Some old systems do not support job control, but @gnusystems{} always
+have, and it is a required feature in the 2001 revision of POSIX.1
+(@pxref{POSIX}). If you need to be portable to old systems, you can
+use the @code{_POSIX_JOB_CONTROL} macro to test at compile-time
+whether the system supports job control. @xref{System Options}.
+
@menu
* Concepts of Job Control:: Jobs can be controlled by a shell.
-* Job Control is Optional:: Not all POSIX systems support job control.
* Controlling Terminal:: How a process gets its controlling terminal.
* Access to the Terminal:: How processes share the controlling terminal.
* Orphaned Process Groups:: Jobs left after the user logs out.
@@ -29,7 +35,7 @@ chapter.
* Functions for Job Control:: Functions to control process groups.
@end menu
-@node Concepts of Job Control, Job Control is Optional, , Job Control
+@node Concepts of Job Control
@section Concepts of Job Control
@cindex shell
@@ -102,30 +108,7 @@ jobs between foreground and background.
@xref{Access to the Terminal}, for more information about I/O to the
controlling terminal.
-@node Job Control is Optional, Controlling Terminal, Concepts of Job Control , Job Control
-@section Job Control is Optional
-@cindex job control is optional
-
-Not all operating systems support job control. @gnusystems{} do
-support job control, but if you are using @theglibc{} on some other
-system, that system may not support job control itself.
-
-You can use the @code{_POSIX_JOB_CONTROL} macro to test at compile-time
-whether the system supports job control. @xref{System Options}.
-
-If job control is not supported, then there can be only one process
-group per session, which behaves as if it were always in the foreground.
-The functions for creating additional process groups simply fail with
-the error code @code{ENOSYS}.
-
-The macros naming the various job control signals (@pxref{Job Control
-Signals}) are defined even if job control is not supported. However,
-the system never generates these signals, and attempts to send a job
-control signal or examine or specify their actions report errors or do
-nothing.
-
-
-@node Controlling Terminal, Access to the Terminal, Job Control is Optional, Job Control
+@node Controlling Terminal
@section Controlling Terminal of a Process
One of the attributes of a process is its controlling terminal. Child
@@ -1166,9 +1149,6 @@ The @code{setpgid} function puts the process @var{pid} into the process
group @var{pgid}. As a special case, either @var{pid} or @var{pgid} can
be zero to indicate the process ID of the calling process.
-This function fails on a system that does not support job control.
-@xref{Job Control is Optional}, for more information.
-
If the operation is successful, @code{setpgid} returns zero. Otherwise
it returns @code{-1}. The following @code{errno} error conditions are
defined for this function: