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Re: execcmd() reordering
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- From: Duncan Sinclair <sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: execcmd() reordering
- Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 19:05:37 +0100
- Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 May 1996 18:58:29 +0200."
Peter wrote about exec stuff:
>Here's a biggish patch which does that. ...
>2) Now `nocorrect' must appear before any of the above.
Why?
>3) Also, variable assignment must appear before exec and friends.
>Again, this is natural and is required in other Bourne shell clones.
There's a flag (-k, I think) which will allow the bourne shell to take
variable assignments at any point of the command - does this work?
>5) `noglob typeset foo=~/file' do not do tilde expansion without...
>Maybe we should change. Even
>magic_equal_subst is fairly sparing about when to expand: it insists
>on the text before the = consisting only of characters which appear in
>identifiers, something I wrote but now rather regret.
Is this the stuff we argued about years ago? I'm all for a change here.
>6) globbing is expanded before the fork.
I don't like this at all.
>Other than getting the
>prompt back an iota later when running background commands, I don't
>see this is a big deal.
When you've got a *huge* expansion which is 50% of the run-time
of the command, I'd like to be able to get on with other things.
> (vii) I get extra brownie points for doing this the week before the
> annual lattice field theory conference where I'm giving a
> talk. Please don't tell my collaborators :-).
Have fun!
Duncan.
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