cc: ast-developers@research.att.com Subject: Re: Re: Re: [ast-developers] Fwd: Per thread open(), stat(), rename() and so on, and *at() API --------
> Excluding tksh and dtksh - has anyone ever managed to use libshell for > anything else? Anyone? I think the answer is a bold "NO" because the > libshell API is NOT suited for tasks outside making more shell > variants. We've been there and figured that libshell can not be used > in ANY larger project because it fiddles with so many global resources > around that it sooner, more sooner blows your application up. The > libshell code is NOT designed to share control with anything else than > itself. > > Many years ago I had a summer student embed ksh93 into a windows scripting interface. David Korn d...@research.att.com _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list ast-developers@research.att.com https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers