Gil,

"deploy" ?

ISTR that this is your favorite example of using DD's in the shell :-)

cat //DD:MYDD



On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:17 AM Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 May 2020 08:56:59 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
> >FWIW, I would love to use bash exclusively on z/OS, but without
> >_BPX_SHAREAS support:
> >
> >-  there are things that you just can't do, like use DDs
> >
> Where does a shell employ DDs?
>
> >-  the overhead for forking new address spaces is significant for many
> >tasks.
> >
> That seems to be an argument for retaining _BPX_SHAREAS support.
> And for a shell's using spawn() where possible rather than fork().
>
> -- gil
>
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