On 8/4/20 8:14 AM, Chase wrote:
> I think I solved the mystery, the call command seems to come from a
> series of commands known as "exksh", a comment in fsym.c reads "This
> function is currently only used to locate a widget class record, as
> requested by a DtLoadWidget request.  In the future, if the exksh
> commands are ever added back in, then it will also need to be able to
> locate any arbitrary symbol." So the command was in a file called
> docall.c that was never built since the beginning of the open source
> version, and eventually removed. It can be found here:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/code/ci/2.2.4/tree/cde/programs/dtksh/docall.c
>
> I guess the question now is how to proceed from here, remove the
> broken tests, readd the unused code, or just keep things as they are?
>

I haven't verified this, but if you are SURE that this code (call) was
already disabled from the Open Group, and never used in our builds, then
go ahead and delete the broken tests.  But, DtWsTest1 isn't one of them,
and it should work.

-jon

> Thank you for your time,
> -Chase
>
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Sunday, August 2, 2020 6:06 PM, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> forgot to mention, I also tried 'xplot' demo from thie following page
>> - it also works well...
>>
>> http://www.brendangregg.com/dtkshdemos.html
>>
>> For the xplot test, I ran (ubuntu 18.04):
>>
>> vmstat 1 | ~/src/xplot.dtksh -f 11 -hi 100 -t \"user\"
>>
>> -jon
>>
>> On 8/2/20 4:23 PM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> In my attempt to port in a new ksh, I ran through the test cases
>>> with the current shell to compare to the new one, and 3 of them do
>>> not work, DtWsTest1, PipeTest and XCursorTest1. At least with
>>> PipeTest and XCursorTest1, these seem to be caused by a missing
>>> command named "call", which appears to call bits of c functions and
>>> such. Did these test cases ever work?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time,
>>> -Chase
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Jon Trulson
>>
>>   "Entropy.  It isn't what it used to be."
>>                            -- Sheldon
>>
>

-- 
Jon Trulson

  "Entropy.  It isn't what it used to be."
                           -- Sheldon

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