From: Bob Gibson <rjg@sco.com>
To: John Mackin (_You_ hide, they seek.) <john@vetsci.su.oz.au>
Cc: The rc Mailing List <rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: recent -s patch
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 21:36:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9206282136.aa02955@imp.scocan.sco.COM> (raw)
| Hey, can anyone on the list tell us
| all if they have any reason at all for wanting -s? Inquiring minds
| want to know. So far, we have Rich's reason, which is that -s is
| passed to the invoked shell by `the OSF/1 script command'. Any
| other takers?
My editor, jove, starts up subshells with the -s option, and obviously
fails to do so if the shell doesn't support it. In this case, the
correct thing to do would be to fix jove to make this configurable.
But if others have a need to add -s to rc, it would save me a bit of
work. I realize this is a pretty lame reason for adding a new feature
so I won't try to defend it. Then again, you now have two applications
which rely on the shell supporting -s. I wonder how many more exist.
next reply other threads:[~1992-06-29 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-06-29 1:36 Bob Gibson [this message]
1992-06-29 23:19 ` David J. Fiander
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1992-06-26 4:11 Scott Schwartz
1992-06-28 19:47 ` John Mackin
1992-06-28 20:34 ` Scott Schwartz
1992-06-28 21:01 ` John Mackin
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