[ale] fun with processes

[Eric Z. Ayers]

You can use kill -STOP <pid> to suspend a process and kill -CONT <pid> 
to resume it.  So you have to know the pid and have permissions to
send the task a signal.

-Eric.

Ben Phillips writes:
 > Is there a way to resume a backgrounded process from a shell other than the
 > one that initiated it?  If not, why?
 > 
 > 
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