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Re: execcmd() reordering
- X-seq: zsh-workers 1237
- From: Duncan Sinclair <sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: execcmd() reordering
- Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 11:15:35 +0100
- Cc: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 May 1996 12:52:37 -0700."
"Barton E. Schaefer" writes:
>On May 30, 9:10pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
>} Subject: Re: execcmd() reordering
>}
>} > 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.
>}
>} You can use (foo **/*) &
>
>I tend to agree with Duncan here, I'm afraid. I may not have any idea
>how large a list the glob is going to expand into; it's ridiculous to
>expect me to subshell every command that might do a glob.
>
>Furthermore, it'd be really nice to be able to stop (^Z) an unexpectedly
>huge glob and then "bg" it, or to interrupt it with ^C if I decide it was
>a mistake.
Oh, absolutely! Does this change mean I can't interrupt long globs???
This would be terrible - esp. if the glob goes into a loop.
All the other things, I can live with. This gives me nightmares.
Bye for now,
Duncan.
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