From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201011051807.53647.dexen.devries@gmail.com> References: <773C7824-C50D-49EE-9CF8-74E91515F2F3@corpus-callosum.com> <201011051807.53647.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:20:55 +1100 Message-ID: From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7896c9d4-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i can answer that one easily. that's why it's called mash rather than "random marketting name". the intention was to replace plan9 rc with a shell that was maintainable and had loadable modules. i wrote it in limbo to show it works, damned well. the first requirement was a make loadable. it's not built into mash, it's loadable. a few pages of code that uses the shell rather than mk's builtin shell like stuff. brucee On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 4:07 AM, dexen deVries wro= te: > On Friday 05 of November 2010 14:31:01 Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: >> Quite right: >> =A0 =A0 =A0http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os/source/browse/#hg/appl/cm= d/mash >> >> Although, no doubt brucee has a new, improved version not fit for mere >> mortals to gaze upon. > > > A honest question: what is the rationale for merging functionality of mak= e and > shell into one? Is mash meant to be default interactive shell? > > -- > dexen > >