David Korn <dgk at research.att.com> wrote: > cc: james.d.carlson at sun.com > Subject: Re: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: Patch to introduce "oksh" to > OS/Net > -------- > > Could someone explain the problem with libc/wordexp() that requires > the old ksh? > > Why not just modify libc/wordexp() so that is uses the new ksh? > The ast version of worexp() uses ksh93. Why can't libc/wordexp() > use the same method?
See: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/lib/libc/port/regex/wordexp.c wordexp() currently calls /bin/ksh -^E (0x05) J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily