[Toybox] toybox flow control

[Rob Landley]

On 03/27/2012 05:36 PM, Juan Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi all.  I just had a quick question.  I was playing around with toybox
> and tried to experiment with flow control and some of the other features
> in sh (toysh) listed in the menuconfig, but with no success.  I was
> wondering if I was missing something or if it's still to be implemented yet.

It's still to be implemented yet.

At some point, I need to take my saved up vacation time from work and
spend a couple weeks attacking toysh.  I've got lots of stuff designed,
but no time to implement it.

Some things require large uninterrupted blocks of time, and getting the
shell right is one of them.  Otherwise you spend all your time refilling
your head with thenecessary context to understand the subtleties of what
you're doing (why is that bit like that again, oh yeah, where is that
specification, how does it handle an embedded NUL byte here, didn't I
write a blog entry on that back in 2006...) and then you get five
minutes to work on it and then have to spend another half-hour getting
your head back in the right space next time...

I can do a bit of this on weekends, but recently I've been spending
those catching up with A) real life, B) aboriginal Linux, C) the backlog
of design issues here. (3/4 done with the dirtree rewrite...)

Rob
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