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From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: coleman@math.gatech.edu (Richard J. Coleman)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Z Shell workers mailing list)
Subject: Re: why is SHINSTDIN an option?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 06:10:32 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27970.199604110510@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199604110413.AAA24507@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> from "Richard J. Coleman" at Apr 11, 96 00:13:51 am

>Is there any reason for SHINSTDIN to be an option?
>In the code, it seems to primarily be used a global variable
>keeping track of where the input stream is coming from.  Since
>the code changes it so often, is there any time where a user
>would want to set this himself?

I was wondering that myself.  It doesn't actually seem to be very
meaningful.  Its only purpose seems to be to allow user code to test
it, but I don't see why one would want to do that -- INTERACTIVE is a
better test of interactiveness.

But the corresponding command line option, -s, must remain, so I
recommend that SHINSTDIN should stay.  I think, however, it should
become read-only, like INTERACTIVE.  It is already read-only in the
Bourne shell here.

-zefram



  reply	other threads:[~1996-04-11  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-04-11  4:13 Richard J. Coleman
1996-04-11  5:10 ` Zefram [this message]
1996-04-11  5:17 ` Barton E. Schaefer

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