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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 18:10:24 -0500
From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <[e-mail]>
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In-Reply-To: Michael Hohmuth's message of Fri, 26 Mar 93 21:27:46 MEZ <[e-mail]>
Subject: tcsh 6.03, BSD sh, mntlib

>> 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.

This sounds good to me.  Anyone want to volunteer to implement it?

cheers,
entropy