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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