Julia EvansJul 2, 2024

poll: when you're using your shell **interactively**, do you ever use its job control features (ctrl+z, fg, bg, `jobs`, `wait`, etc?)

(other than maybe occasionally backgrounding a process with &)

yes, frequently
23.1%
yes, occasionally
36.8%
never (or almost never)
39%
other
1%
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Show threadSpace Hobo

@b0rk Not only do I often use `jobs`, but I also use the `%` syntax for job numbers a lot. So quite often I'm glad that I wasn't root, because I tried to `kill %1` and mistyped it as `kill 51`.

PID 51 is usually something like a CPU hotplug thread in the kernel, these days.

Jul 2, 2024 at 12:16pmWeb