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Re: exact meaning of restart




On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> 
> My opinion on this is that the extended operator ``!'' should go away. 
> Having one command alter the semantics of several others isn't right. 

IMHO, it is inevitable: we have gorups of commands which do not have
sense separate from each other.

> The relevant commands, and remote.c's use of them should be tightend to
> the point that the operator is no longer needed.

'!' does just two things allows 'restart' and changes semantics of kill
in some cases - it does not seem like a big problem too me and
funtionality is valuable in my view. I would not have as separate
tharget though.

> 
> 	Andrew
> 

Thanks,

Aleksey



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