Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:31:07 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scripting language in base system? Message-ID: <20020716223107.GC29859@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200207161924.g6GJOcOP046703@dotar.thuvia.org> References: <mailpost.1026843495.44837@thuvia.demon.co.uk> <200207161924.g6GJOcOP046703@dotar.thuvia.org>
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:24:38PM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote: > > From: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) > > Date: Tue 16 Jul, 2002 > > Subject: Re: scripting language in base system? > > > [1] We're talking "higher-level than /bin/sh" here. The crucial > > feature is C language extension without fork(2)/exec(2) overhead. > > 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/ > Probably make it a separate binary to keep /bin/sh small and static. Q: in the mean time, how about to switch to pdksh as OpenBSD does ? I'm working w/ it for months w/o any problems right now. evrything it ready, the Makefile, the manual pages and the import to src/contrib. I've also merged diffs from the real one pdksh. are you interrested ? Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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