From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from yonge.csri.toronto.edu ([128.100.1.2]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2624>; Sun, 28 Jun 1992 21:41:39 -0400 Received: from scocan by yonge.csri.toronto.edu with UUCP id <4975>; Sun, 28 Jun 1992 21:41:21 -0400 Received: from imp.scocan.sco.COM by scocan.scocan.sco.COM id aa16034; 28 Jun 92 21:36 EDT To: John Mackin (_You_ hide, they seek.) Cc: The rc Mailing List Subject: Re: recent -s patch Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 21:36:55 -0400 From: Bob Gibson Message-ID: <9206282136.aa02955@imp.scocan.sco.COM> | 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.