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From: Michael Hohmuth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: tcsh 6.03, BSD sh, mntlib
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 21:27:46 MEZ
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>; from "Nicholas S Castellano" at Mar 23, 93 6:19 pm
Mailer: Elm [revision: 64.9]

> Yes...I still feel there are too many broken shells out there, but I
> have received a many examples in email of cases where the current
> emulation in the library loses badly.  I've come to the conclusion
> that it would be nice to provide both methods and let the user choose
> via an environment variable which way to go (e.g. if your shell works
> good enough, you can enable the exec-/bin/sh version of system() and
> popen()).  I am (as I believe I said in another message) open to
> discussion on which should be the default, and how this should be
> controlled (a new env var, or a switch in UNIXMODE?)

I think a UNIXMODE switch would be sufficiant.  The default should be not
to use /bin/sh (under both MiNT and TOS, for backward compatibelity of new
binaries to not-well-configured systems).  If UNIXMODE switch "s" is present,
/bin/sh should be used.  The device to load it from should be the default
root device (_rootdir), which is initialized from UNIXMODE, too (in
mntlib/main.c), and which defaults to U: under MiNT.

Michael
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