MMUless and shell functions
Vladimir N. Oleynik
dzo at simtreas.ru
Wed Oct 5 16:49:52 UTC 2005
Rob Landley wrote:
>>I'd like to have a shell which supports functions on my MMUless 68k
>>platform. msh is working, but does not support functions, ash cannot be
>>built for MMUless (as far as I can tell).
> Unfortunately, ash is beyond the complexity event horizon for fixing without a
> rewrite, as far as I'm concerned. Vladimir might have better luck, he seems
> to be more or less maintaining our copy of ash.
Ash can use for MMUless exept "|" and "&" syntax with change fork() -> vfork().
Also. I see libunarchive/open_transformer.c have pipe()+fork() and do not
call exec*() for decode arhives. This can`t usaging for MMUless.
--w
vodz
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