On 2010-04-06 03:33, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
Ron Johnson schreef:On 2010-04-05 22:22, Matthew Moore wrote:
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Linux (and Unix, for that matter) does not have the concept of the "job"Business-oriented operating systems (like OpenVMS, MVS/OS, OS/400 and other legacy systems) do, but any operating system without a batch queue (which is, naturally, to where you submit jobs) can not have "jobs".Then please file a bug report to rename the inaptly named "jobs" command
:)If I read this[0] correctly, then a "job" is just a backgrounded process. This[1][2] is what jobs really are. It's usual purpose is to process the Nightly Cycle, even though on a 24x7 system, sets of jobs will run night and day. They should be integrated into the OS. DBMSs (like Oracle) should *not* have integrated job schedulers
[0] http://www.faqs.org/docs/bashman/bashref_78.html [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_scheduler [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Processing_Cycle -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower