Freeze running jobs
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A:job-control
category:enhancement
- Dominant language
- 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
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
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