On 7/19/20 12:00 PM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote: > So upstream ksh has gotten rid of their predefined aliases, meaning we > had to switch them over to builtins if we ever plan on updating ksh, > the patch also got rid of the BLT_SPC flag for reasons best explained > in this email sent by the ksh maintainers: > > "Default aliases are an ugly hack that you are better off without. > Disadvantages include: - 'unalias -a' becomes basically unusable as it > gets rid of commands you probably want; - shell functions by those > names are ignored (unless you quote their names upon invocation); - > something like 'cmdname=foo; "$cmdname" bar baz' doesn't work if > $cmdname is an alias. > > I strongly recommend removing the BLT_SPC flag from all of your extra > dtksh builtins. Making builtins "special builtins" is of no real > benefit at all, while introducing a pointless restriction: shell > functions by those names cannot be defined, which causes a risk of > incompatibility with scripts written for other shells. The BLT_SPC > flag is for a very few historic builtins that must have certain weird > corner-case behaviour of "special" builtins for POSIX compliance and > Bourne shell compatibility reasons." >
Sounds reasonable to me. Everything still works. > Upstreaming ksh and autotooling ksh soon to follow when/if this gets > merged. > Merged, thanks! -jon > Thank you for your time, > -Chase > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cdesktopenv-devel mailing list > cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel -- Jon Trulson "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." -- Sheldon
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