Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 08:52:07 -0500
From: Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org>
Message-ID: <20250209135207.gn29...@wooledge.org>
| Oh, that must be another 2024 change.
As my earlier correction indicated, it didn't happen.
It turns out that all the *ash shells (bash, yash, and all derived from
the original ash (dash, NetBSD & FreeBSD)) have -p to mean prompt. All
the ksh shells use -p to indicate to read from a coprocess (why -p for
that I cannot imagine). bosh (for as much as it matters) has no -p
option at all.
That's going to make it very hard to add to the standard, we might
need to add another option name as an alternative in order to get
it added (almost everyone agrees having the ability to prompt is
useful, the ksh's can do that - just using a mechanism that is way
too obscene to describe in a polite environment.)
| If portability is the goal, I'd still go with printf + read for a while.
So yes, it looks like that is the current state of the world.
kre
