Re: rc 1.5

["David J. Fiander" <davidf@golem.waterloo.on.ca>]

>That's a good question. I'm hoping to freeze rc. I also don't feel
>the need to bring rc "into line" with anything else. So offhand I
>would say no. The flag command is present in plan9 rc for a very
>specific reason (/lib/rcmain).

It's also there so scripts can change flags.  I would like to
be able to write scripts that turn on the -x flag internally,
when their debug flag is specified on the command line.

>And I don't want dot to search
>my path. 

[deletion]

>and "." is at the end of my path? Does this mean I run /bin/test
>as rc input? (THIS IS WHAT /bin/sh ACTUALLY DOES!!)

Actually, /bin/sh, /bin/ksh, and the POSIX.2 shell all check
the current directory for a file named "test", and _then_
search the path for a file named "test" which is also
executable.

The reason I would like "." to search the path is that then I
can create the directory /usr/bin/rclib, and store
scripts in there.  Then my scripts can just say

	. rclib/read

to load the read function that I have stored there.

- David