MMUless and shell functions

Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Thu Oct 6 20:30:23 UTC 2005


On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:49:52PM +0400, Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:
>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.

Can anyone with an MMUless system look into reproducing and/or fixing
bug #125 (https://bugs.busybox.net/view.php?id=125) with current trunk,
please?

I'm currently not setup for an MMU-less emulator or the like, fwiw.

Thanks!
Bernhard



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