Any Bash features you'd like to see?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu May 12 14:34:20 UTC 2005


On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:47:34AM +0300, Peter wrote:
> zsh is not the default system shell on linux.

So?  bash isn't the default shell on BSD either, that doens't stop sane
people from changing to it.

> That implies mutual locking to prevent writing garbage into the file, 
> and a different format of the file (to id the writing shell - otherwise 
> backtracking on a session set is impossible).

If you don't care about order, you just need locking to prevent
simultanious writes.  That's good enough for most cases.

Lennart Sorensen
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