From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: exec -a and parameter expansion
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:32:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <110107183257.ZM674@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <110107181708.ZM628@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Jan 7, 6:17pm, Bart Schaefer wrote:
} Subject: Re: exec -a and parameter expansion
}
} So either there are some missing test cases for other things that
} this would cause to break, or we should rearrange execcmd() so that
} "typeset" is the only special-cased builtin ahead of prefork().
The question, I guess, is whether/how this is supposed to work:
dash_p="-p"
command $dash_p echo "what path did I search?"
dash_a="-a"
exec $dash_a $OSTYPE echo "what did I exec?"
Currently options of special builtins must only appear literally, and
both of the above would report "command not found" (unless by some odd
chance you do have commands named "-p" and "-a").
If we follow bash's example, we should indeed be performing prefork()
a lot earlier in the handling of those special builtins, but I'm not
sure about the ones that are supposed to be true parser keywords.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-08 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-07 22:09 Christian Neukirchen
2011-01-07 22:56 ` Phil Pennock
2011-01-08 2:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-01-08 2:32 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2011-01-08 21:52 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-01-08 22:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-01-09 1:18 ` Bart Schaefer
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