Date:Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:35:33 + (GMT)
From:Iain Hibbert
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| > First, it has irritated me for ages there is no way to know that it is
| > the NetBSD shell that is running
|
| Might I ask, what do you need to know this information for?
Sorry,
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016, Robert Elz wrote:
> First, it has irritated me for ages there is no way to know that it is
> the NetBSD shell that is running - many (but not all) other shells
> implement one, or more, predefined sh variables that can be tested
> (and which can give other info about the shell
I have just sent away patches for PRs 19832 35423 (those are the same thing)
some of 50958 (the ?: operator, not assignment ops yet) 50959 and 50960
and to use the shell's internal syntax tables rather than for
parsing purposes (deciding what is a legal var or function name is the
most common use.
