[RFC, PATCH] new applet resize #2

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:54:11PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
>On Friday 22 September 2006 4:25 am, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:25:04PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
>> >On Thursday 21 September 2006 5:45 pm, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>> 
>> >> It's ment as a suggestion to emit the string conditionally in case
>> >> somebody wants to preserve the behaviour of the bloated normal binary
>> >> that is not in busybox.
>> >
>> >The normal binary?  (Rummage...)  Ah, so there is.  Part of X from _1984_.  
>> >Wow.
>> >
>> >Ok, preserving the behavior of that strikes me as a good thing.  I guess 
>that 
>> 
>> I've applied it as r16176 for now.
>> Feel free to wipe it out of the tree like you did with taskset, if you
>> feel like.
>
>Done.

Thanks so much.
>
>"I'll think about it" != "Ooh, that means I should apply it".  It means I need 
>to think about how best to do this.
>
>The purpose of this applet is to run from the command line?  Or are we 

It's purpose is to be run interactively (only, i'd say).

>encouraging people to have it in their /etc/profile?  If they start typing 
>before their /etc/profile runs (or they "echo command | sh", don't we have 
>the same problem with bbsh interactive mode, where it shouldn't do this if 
>there's already data waiting on stdin?  (Or should it discard any data 
>waiting on stdin?)

I don't understand what you're saying here. Please explain?

>
>And _if_ we do this, I'd like to re-use the code that bbsh is using to do this 
>probing for interactive mode, rather than having two implementations in the 
>tree.  I believe I _said_ that.

bbsh doesn't have that code AFAICS.
You don't seem to want to collaborate with anybody wrt bbsh. That
resize applet serves a unique, established purpose that shouldn't be
hindered by eventual progress you as a single person achieve with bringing
bbsh forward.
>
>Also, I'd rather not add new code into the tree with "or later" and then have 
>to go back and remove it as I get around to making the license notices 
>uniform.

I would have removed the or later in a day or two, if the applet was
still in the tree