[BusyBox] another hush fix

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Mon Jun 11 10:09:51 UTC 2001


On Thu Jun 07, 2001 at 11:43:37AM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> I'm not convinced that hush should have #defines added.
> While it's not spaghetti code (I've seen plenty of that)
> it is relatively tightly woven, and a lot of the features
> don't take up nearly as much space as the basic infrastructure.
> 
> It would make more sense to strip _lash_ down, such as getting
> rid of backticks and if/then/else/fi handling, that don't really
> work right anyway.  Then see if any of the bug fixes for hush,
> like setpgrgp calls, can be back-ported for lash.  Lash would
> end up smaller, simpler, and still usable for truly low end work.

You do have a point.  Cutting lash back so it serves the job for which I
originally conceived it (i.e. a minimalist interactive prompt with no bells 
or whistles) would be useful.  I'll do that.

 -Erik

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