From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 16 16:32:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEE337B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thuvia.demon.co.uk (thuvia.demon.co.uk [193.237.34.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51E843E42 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar.thuvia.org (dotar.thuvia.org [10.0.0.4]) by phaidor.thuvia.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6GNVtb57797; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:31:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar.thuvia.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dotar.thuvia.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6GNVsKC053110; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:31:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@dotar.thuvia.org) Received: (from mark@localhost) by dotar.thuvia.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6GNVsCa053104; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:31:54 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:31:54 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine Message-Id: <200207162331.g6GNVsCa053104@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <20020716223107.GC29859@gits.dyndns.org> X-Disclaimer: tequila X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: Cyrille Lefevre Subject: Re: scripting language in base system? Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Cyrille Lefevre > Date: Wed 17 Jul, 2002 > Subject: Re: scripting language in base system? > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:24:38PM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote: > > Hm, Evil Thought: dynamically loadable shell builtins, anyone? > > > > Maybe not very pretty (see wksh for an example of extending ksh > > to embrace the X Toolkit API, albeit statically), but perhaps with > > the addition of a real list data type (which is about all Tcl needs), > > it might be useful. > > http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/tksh/ Neat. It looks like it's annoyingly close to being free, too. > Q: in the mean time, how about to switch to pdksh as OpenBSD does ? Is this going to become necessary to get a more standards-conformant shell? Is pdksh the best implementation available to us? Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message