Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:24:38 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripting language in base system? Message-ID: <200207161924.g6GJOcOP046703@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1026843495.44837@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> 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. Probably make it a separate binary to keep /bin/sh small and static. Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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