[Toybox] Would someone please explain what bash is doing here?

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/12/20 7:08 PM, Rob Landley wrote:

>>> Minimalism and POSIX conformance are the big selling points now, at least
>>> on the shell side of things.
> 
> I dunno about minimalism, but I'm trying to get toys/pending/sh.c in under 3500
> lines. (It's 2400 now, maybe 100 of which is debug code. So it's still feasible,
> but tight. And yeah, that's pulling in some subset of lib/*.c's 5600 lines, so
> maybe 9k lines total. Plus my original plan for command history editing went out
> the window, so I have to redo that...)
> 
> Then again, I'm trying to implement more functionality in that budget than dash
> is. Does that make it less minimalist?

The dash folks would say so.


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