"William James" <williamjamesgnusolaris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Uhm... you are aware that this may break SMF's inetd services (inetd
> > uses |libc::wordexp()| which uses a secret switch in Solaris's
> > /usr/bin/ksh to do the word expansion. Unfortunately ksh93 does not
> > support the "secret switch"-hack which causes |libc::wordexp()| to fail
> > and this renderes inetd defunct. We have a solution in the
> > ksh93-integration prototype004 tree which replaces the original
> > |libc::wordexp()| function with a version which uses ksh93 instead...
> > but that requires to replace your libc.so.1 libraries with the patched
> > version...) ?
>
> Why can't you just compile the ksh93 wordexp() for all libc versions?
> Or set an environment variable to tell applications to use the ksh93
> code?
ksh93 uses sfio while libc uses stdio.
>From my understanding, libc would need to convert to libast in order to
be compatible with a wordexp() implementation that directly uses ksh93 code.
J?rg
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