On Jun 07, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Jonathan Johnson wrote:
On Jun 7, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Stefan P. wrote:
A last non sarcastic question:
What does RB's Shell class call?
If I'd know what's going on, I'm happy to write some
C sample code and prove ME or YOU wrong.
Let's keep the hostility down a bit. REALbasic, on Mac OS X,
currently invokes /bin/sh with the "-c" option, passing in the
user's input afterwards. This is done after a fork if using
Asynchronous or Interactive mode. I'm not the engineer that wrote
the code, but I assume that the reason for having "sh" execute the
command is simply because it will setup a minimal environment to
operate in and parse the command given properly. It is very likely
that any of the shells (which we're using sh for no particular reason)
sh exists on pretty much every Unix implementation so it is realy
always relied on when writing scripts for Unix
It's an unusual Unix install that does not have it.
will convert line endings such that the terminals won't have to
grok them. A way to verify that this is happening is in the
terminal to write:
/bin/sh -c "cat /foo/bar" > out.txt
Check to see if foo/bar and out.txt are the exact same. I'm
guessing that you'll notice that the line endings aren't the same
anymore.
And this also explains why sometimes things will run in on one OS X
install and not another.
If a person has the right .login, .profile, etc this would set them up
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