From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer)
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: PATCH: emulate (Re: Prompt fun)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:20:49 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E11aahN-00017f-00@crucigera.fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <991010231931.ZM5336@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Oct 10, 1999 11:19:31 pm"
Bart Schaefer wrote:
> It occurs to me that printing
>the prompt can actually cause commands to be executed when `promptsubst'
>is set, because of $(...) substitutions. Depending on what those commands
>do, that certainly could affect the behavior of a script.
It's up to the user. The user sets the prompt, and if the user wants
to execute commands when printing the prompt then so be it. Of course,
executing commands that have side effects would be a bad idea.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-10-11 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-07 0:28 PATCH: Re: Prompt fun Bart Schaefer
1999-10-07 10:41 ` PATCH: emulate (Re: Prompt fun) Zefram
1999-10-07 14:53 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-10-07 15:11 ` Zefram
1999-10-07 15:42 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-10-07 15:50 ` Zefram
1999-10-07 17:20 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-10-07 17:29 ` Zefram
1999-10-07 18:56 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-10-08 9:58 ` Zefram
1999-10-07 20:32 ` Reasons for not wanting EXTENDED_GLOB interactively (was Re: PATCH:...) Bruce Stephens
1999-10-08 6:15 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1999-10-10 23:03 ` PATCH: Re: PATCH: emulate (Re: Prompt fun) Bart Schaefer
1999-10-10 23:19 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-10-11 8:20 ` Zefram [this message]
1999-10-10 23:21 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-10-11 8:17 ` Zefram
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