[BusyBox] which shell for scriptin

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Fri Sep 7 02:52:09 UTC 2001


Joerg,

> Am Freitag,  7. September 2001 00:51 schrieb David Kimdon:
> > FWIW I found msh in 0.52 to handle a lot of scripts without difficulty, and
> > as you noticed, ash had some problems.
> I can't ACK that with msh from 0.60.x! If he (the OP) has to use backticks in
> script, he'll be in trouble.
> As the CVS (and Erik or Vladimir) stated: "Backticks may not work if they
> produce more then a few kByte of input data for msh". But as I tried to do
> something like:
> test -s/var/run/this.pid && kill `cat /var/run/this.pid`
> msh failed silently and I worked out that the backticks won't even produce
> _some bytes_ of data.
>   But perhaps this is corrected until now and every backtickin' works smooth
> now? I had not the time until now to look at the source of this problem (so I
> switched to ash...)

Not in CSV. Only in mine ftp - ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/my/bb/new/msh.c.gz


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