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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Passing state information from one completion function to another?
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:31:29 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200008150831.KAA05068@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:31:06 +0400


Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> What I'd like to have is to list only my own processes in "normal" case and
> everything in case of root. This works with a single exception of sudo (and
> may be su) - in this case completion happens in current user context and does
> not know if it was root or not.
> 
> Is it possible for _sudo to set some state info (notably, that we are after
> sudo at all and user name) that can be queried by other functions? Of course,
> that shoould be cleaned up after completion exits. This may be useful in other
> cases as well - some generic test "if command is to be executed as root/other
> user"

Shouldn't it be enough to use `zstyle -e' and test if $words contains
`sudo' (probably as the first word)?

Bye
 Sven


--
Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de


             reply	other threads:[~2000-08-15  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-15  8:31 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
2000-08-15  8:42 ` Andrej Borsenkow
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-08-15  9:13 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-08-15  7:31 Andrej Borsenkow
2000-08-15 15:44 ` Bart Schaefer

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