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

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