I am in no rush, if you'd like to verify first go right ahead, I wont be
sending any patches until I get ksh updated.
Thank you for your time,
-Chase
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 6:13 PM, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> wrote:
> 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>](mailto: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
>
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> Jon Trulson
>
> "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be."
> -- Sheldon
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