From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28522 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 21:03:17 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA08323; Fri, 31 May 1996 06:55:24 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 06:55:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199605311055.MAA01708@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: execcmd() reordering To: sinclair@dis.strath.ac.uk (Duncan Sinclair) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:55:08 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: schaefer@z-code.ncd.com, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <9992.833537735@dis.strath.ac.uk> from Duncan Sinclair at "May 31, 96 11:15:35 am" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"wQO_H3.0.w12.R0jhn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1238 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > Oh, absolutely! Does this change mean I can't interrupt long globs??? > This would be terrible - esp. if the glob goes into a loop. Do not worry. Zsh never forked for builtins and you were able to interrupt things like echo **/*. This is not changed. ^Z will not work for suspending external commands but other than that there should be no noticable change unless something is backgrounded. ^Z never worked for builtins and shell functions and the number of arguments that can be passed to external commands is always limited by the OS (although on modern systems this limit is very high). Zoltan