Re: ?maybe? RFE?... read -h ?

2021-09-05 Thread Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev
btw in the help you pasted there is the -a arr in question On Mon, Sep 6, 2021, 08:36 felix wrote: > On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 11:54:05PM -0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2021, at 11:11 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > > > > > ... I was wondering, is there a way for bash to know wher

Re: ?maybe? RFE?... read -h ?

2021-09-05 Thread Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev
i totally agree with any make subshells obsolete ( for cpu speed ) plans On Mon, Sep 6, 2021, 08:36 felix wrote: > On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 11:54:05PM -0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2021, at 11:11 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > > > > > ... I was wondering, is there a way for bas

Re: ?maybe? RFE?... read -h ?

2021-09-05 Thread felix
On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 11:54:05PM -0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On Sun, Sep 5, 2021, at 11:11 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > > > ... I was wondering, is there a way for bash to know where the > > > symlink points (without using an external program)? > > The distribution ships with a "realpath

Re: ?maybe? RFE?... read -h ?

2021-09-05 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Sun, Sep 5, 2021, at 11:11 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > L A Walsh writes: > > I know how -h can detect a symlink, but I was wondering, is > > there a way for bash to know where the symlink points (without > > using an external program)? > > My understanding is that it has been convention to use

Re: ?maybe? RFE?... read -h ?

2021-09-05 Thread Dale R. Worley
L A Walsh writes: > I know how -h can detect a symlink, but I was wondering, is > there a way for bash to know where the symlink points (without > using an external program)? My understanding is that it has been convention to use the "readlink" program for a very long time, so there's never been

POSIX defines struct timeval in

2021-09-05 Thread Ori Sky Farrell
I've discovered a gap in POSIX compliance in lib/sh/strftime.c on the devel branch. POSIX mandates that the timeval struct be defined in , although as can be seen on Line 67 of the file in question, the file is only included here if the tm struct -- which POSIX mandates be defined in -- is def