* erik quanstrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > But for me the memory vs. temp
> > file argument is largely irrelevant, due to ramfs.
>
> what does that mean? surely you're not running ramfs from
> your profile.
No, but if you want here documents in memory you don't have to bother with
implementing that in the rc binary. Just starting ramfs before running the
script in question is enough. That takes care of almost all cases where that
might be useful. If someone uses here documents in the profile that are so
so big that those not being held in memory is a performance issue, there's
probably so much wrong going on that I wouldn't bother anyway. And I agree,
the rc quoting makes generating input quite painless. Personally, I usually
feel the need for here documents when writing shell scripts on systems where
no rc is available.
Martin
