Typing ctrl-Z at the tty usually just sends the 'TSTP' signal process. You can do this yourself with kill: 

kill TSTP => $some_proccess_id;

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... you should also be able to catch this signal from a perlscript and do some processing before stopping your process, or just to make your process not be stopable this way. A process can also be stopped with the 'STOP' signal which cannot be caught, which you'd need to use if you wanted to stop your process while still catching the 'TSTP' signal.

Restarting a process can be done by sending the 'CONT' signal to process.

Obviously, you can also do these things using the kill command on the command line.

update: Of course, all this advice is rather UNIX-specific.

In reply to Re: Suspending a process (slighty OT) by wog
in thread Suspending a process (slighty OT) by suaveant

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