Windows port?

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy pclouds at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 05:24:22 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Denys Vlasenko
<vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
> <pclouds at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Denys Vlasenko
>> <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> 4. ash
>>>> ~1000 lines, half of them to work around fork(). Not everything works,
>>>> and not really stable. I'm thinking about a thread-based ash so that
>>>> it would work faster, but stability first.
>>>
>>> hush may be a better shell to work with, it can avoid using fork()
>>> (will use vfork+preparatory_work_in_the_same_process_image+exec
>>> if built for NOMMU, which probably maps better to Win CreateProcess()
>>> call or whatever)
>>
>> And its functionality is quite limited too.
>
> What do you miss most in it?

Hmm.. functions. But I misread its description as "not supported"
while the feature is actually supported. Interesting.
-- 
Duy


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