On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 03:21:43PM +0100, Oliver Schad wrote: > I completely understand the purpose of execline but for server systems, > which allocates more than 1 GB RAM regulary and running on modern x86 > CPUs, saving such resources is not needed for us(!).
Which is also why I usually avoided execline in slew :) > Another point for our decision (for us) is, that we don't have knowlege > about other shells than sh/bash - cause we don't see big benefits for > us, we would stay in a homogeneous toolset. You can have a look at rc(1). Much cleaner than Bourne shells, much easier to learn, and roughly on the same level of expressiveness. I think its benefits greatly overweigh the costs for migrating to it. -- My current OpenPGP key: RSA4096/0x227E8CAAB7AA186C (expires: 2020.10.19) 7077 7781 B859 5166 AE07 0286 227E 8CAA B7AA 186C