Earnie Boyd dixit:
>One can use either method as long as a method doesn't give unexpected
>results to the end user. If you translate PATH to / then you need to
>translate it back to \ before spawning a process because Windows OS
>will not do the right thing with / in PATH.
Hrm. Well, maybe for mksh/Win32.
>I would suggest training echo to not translate the escaped characters
>of an environment variable.
“echo” just sees the string. By default, Korn Shell echo has
historically been “rich”, but I’d say we can make -E the default
on native Win32.
Michael, this is the patch (in R39) if you agree:
--- funcs.c~ Thu Jul 30 19:11:11 2009
+++ funcs.c Wed Sep 11 13:09:52 2013
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ c_print(const char **wp)
char *xp;
if (wp[0][0] == 'e') { /* echo command */
- int nflags = flags;
+ int nflags = (flags = PO_NL);
/* A compromise between sysV and BSD echo commands:
* escape sequences are enabled by default, and
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ c_print(const char **wp)
* Different from sysV echo since options are recognised,
* different from BSD echo since escape sequences are enabled
* by default.
+ * mksh/Win32 change: Disable escape sequences by default.
*/
wp += 1;
if (Flag(FPOSIX)) {
>My interest in mksh-w32 is one of a replacement for MSYS. Getting rid
>of the man-in-the-middle runtime would help speed up operations and
>the less work the binary does spawning the better. At some point in
Right.
>the distant future I'll take a look at the code and try to help out.
That’d be great!
Thanks,
//mirabilos
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20:49⎜«Natureshadow» Oops, jetzt hab ich mir doch glatt beim Trinken
⎜ Mineralwasser ins Ohr gekippt…
21:04⎜«mirabilos» ist das siggbar? █ PS: سمَـَّوُوُحخ ̷̴خ ̷̴خ ̷̴خ امارتيخ
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21:05⎜«Natureshadow» mirabilos: was sollte dich davon abhalten…
