Re: Can I get a hint, please?

2006-10-07 Thread Bruce Korb
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-09/msg00068.html I gave it a quick try on Red Hat linux with the bash-3.2 release candidate, and ran `echo $MYPID' about 15 times without error. Chet Hi Chet, Cool. I'll have to get the up-to-date bash and give it a try. That's a problem

Re: Can I get a hint, please?

2006-10-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruce Korb on 10/7/2006 8:09 AM: > That got me thinking. csh/bash have this cute feature of giving > hints when the tab key is pressed. Programs nowadays are elf > and elf allows for arbitrary sections to be added into a binary > that wo

Re: Can I get a hint, please?

2006-10-07 Thread Chet Ramey
Bruce Korb wrote: > As long as I'm being chatty, there has been a discussion recently > on the Austin Group reflector titled, "Re: USG Guideline 9" > that had to do with the handling of misordered command line options. > David Korn et al. were speculating on the possibility of making > the shell h