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It is still frustrating that there is no suspend/connect/detach, having said that this characteristic could be useful for saving the state of terminal sessions amongst logins. Unfortunately, it does the least complicated aspect - determining where keystrokes go - and punts all the hard sections, like conserving and restoring the point out of the display screen, to the application. There is no conventional, nicely-founded way to question the procedure to notify an software if and when a specified file or directory alterations. Their intuition is to say that shielding the user from himself ought to be accomplished at the GUI or software amount, not in the functioning procedure. Most of the additional present day languages, for case in point, have lists and dictionaries as most important details sorts - but, since these really don't have any canonical representation in the universe of C, trying to pass lists amongst (say) Perl and Python is an unnatural act requiring a large amount of glue.