Chris Pickett <[email protected]> wrote: > First at all you do not go through fork() and be a lot faster. > > Second you do not have ARG_MAX and other process-based limitations, > e.g. the list and size of arguments passed to builtin commands and > shell functions is only limited by memory (thank again Roland for > giving us a 64bit ksh93 :) ). > With builtin our scripts can't trip over the ancient Solaris limits > for ARG_MAX (if anyone has time, please file a bug to get ARG_MAX > removed completely.).
Then it would make sense to define a standard for the interface of a reentrant utility in a shared library. Not a bad idea but there are currently different and partially incompatible models for such an interface. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
