From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 16 12:24:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855BB37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thuvia.demon.co.uk (thuvia.demon.co.uk [193.237.34.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0333843E31 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar.thuvia.org (dotar.thuvia.org [10.0.0.4]) by phaidor.thuvia.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6GJOcb56798; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:24:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar.thuvia.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dotar.thuvia.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6GJOcKC046704; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:24:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@dotar.thuvia.org) Received: (from mark@localhost) by dotar.thuvia.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6GJOcOP046703; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:24:38 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:24:38 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine Message-Id: <200207161924.g6GJOcOP046703@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: X-Disclaimer: tequila X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: scripting language in base system? Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) > Date: Tue 16 Jul, 2002 > Subject: Re: scripting language in base system? > [1] We're talking "higher-level than /bin/sh" here. The crucial > feature is C language extension without fork(2)/exec(2) overhead. Hm, Evil Thought: dynamically loadable shell builtins, anyone? Maybe not very pretty (see wksh for an example of extending ksh to embrace the X Toolkit API, albeit statically), but perhaps with the addition of a real list data type (which is about all Tcl needs), it might be useful. Probably make it a separate binary to keep /bin/sh small and static. Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message