On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Daniel Pittman wrote:
The word shell sometimes refers to any kind of parent or launcher process,
so that's where you might hear people refer to GNOME, KDE, progman.exe (on
Windows) or dosshell.exe (aptly named) as "shells".
*nod* The final complexity, to which I referred elsewhere in this thread, is
that shells are used to tie together other components in a simple programming
system, either interactively or in a batch mode.
Even the Solaris "svc" registry that is the next wave of starting and
stopping services or boot run control levels in the end runs all its
methods as a collection of shell scripts.
The shell will never die - it will just become more extensible.....
rachel
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