cc:  ast-developers@research.att.com
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [ast-developers] Fwd: Per thread open(), stat(), rename() 
and  so on, and *at() API
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> 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
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