Job Control

Disowning Processes

Ion features a disown command which supports the following flags:

• -r: Remove all running jobs from the background process list.
• -h: Specifies that each job supplied will not receive the SIGHUP signal when the shell receives a SIGHUP.
• -a: If no job IDs were supplied, remove all jobs from the background process list.

Unlike Bash, job arguments are their specified job IDs.

Foreground & Background Tasks

When a foreground task is stopped with the Ctrl+Z signal, that process will be added to the background process list as a stopped job. When a supplied command ends with the & operator, this will specify to run the task the background as a running job. To resume a stopped job, executing the bg <job_id> command will send a SIGCONT to the specified job ID, hence resuming the job. The fg command will similarly do the same, but also set that task as the foreground process. If no argument is given to either bg or fg, then the previous job will be used as the input.

Exiting the Shell

The exit command will exit the shell, sending a SIGTERM to any background tasks that are still active. If no value is supplied to exit, then the last status that the shell received will be used as the exit status. Otherwise, if a numeric value is given to the command, then that value will be used as the exit status.

Suspending the Shell

While the shell ignores SIGTSTP signals, you can forcefully suspend the shell by executing the suspend command, which forcefully stops the shell via a SIGSTOP signal.