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[Christian Dywan <christian.dywan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think a whitelist with commands that can be easily extended would be 
interesting for this. For example:

Type "make".
Wait a few seconds.
Terminal shows a popup "Allow task to continue running in the 
background?"

From now on every invokation of make won't be stopped. And if it 
finishes in the background, it can show a notification.

Conversely most tasks in a terminal don't need this and you can still 
benefit from lifecycle most of the time.

Just my 2 cents,
   Christian

Am So, 4. Okt, 2015 um 3:44 schrieb Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx>:
> Just had a thought on these special cases in the terminal. I'm still 
> not
> liking the idea of giving a lifecycle exception to the terminal, as I
> don't think it's needed for most use cases.
>
> But, what if we had a special command that would run a command in the
> background. In the same manner that the sudo command runs any command 
> as
> a different user, another command (e.g. runbg) could run any command 
> as
> an external background running command.
> 	Presumably this command would do something along the lines of forking
> the process so that it is not owned by the terminal app and thus not
> dependent on the terminal to keep running. I'm not sure how complex 
> this
> is to implement, any thoughts on whether this would be a viable
> approach?
>
> On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 16:40 +0200, Thomas Voß wrote:
> >  Alan gave this example of compiling, doing mails and browsing at the
> >  *same* time. Obviously, the focus is on
> >  compiling here :) doing mails and browsing are just other tasks 
> > being
> >  executed at the same time. Now mail and browsing are certainly
> >  perfectly fine
> >  to be done on a phone. However, the scenario of compiling, checking
> >  mails and browsing in parallel (as in overlapping windowed mode) is
> >  not something
> >  very typically carried out in a mobile device usage scenario. The 
> > key
> >  point is: compiling would require uninterrupted execution in the
> >  background while
> >  switching from terminal to browser to mail client. Mail and browsing
> >  would still work, no problem with that. But: the full-blown scenario
> >  mentioned before is
> >  more of a desktop-ish use-case, which can happily be powered by the
> >  phone in docked mode. It's just a difference usage scenario.
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