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Freeze running jobs

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A:job-control category:enhancement
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Rust
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Description

Background jobs could be frozen. We could add a job freeze command:

let id = job spawn { resource-intensive-command }
job freeze $id 

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Research direction

Start by tracing the existing job spawn entry point and how its job IDs are represented. The work is complete when a running job can be selected by ID through the proposed job freeze $id command and its execution is frozen.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust, shell
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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