echo and test builtins for msh/hush

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri Jun 16 13:00:03 PDT 2006


On Friday 16 June 2006 00:31, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:52 pm, Paul Fox wrote:
> > when i started looking at msh the other day, i realized that it
> > would probably make some people happy if the other scriptable
> > shells in busybox had the builtin echo and test improvements.
> > (particularly msh, since it seems to be the only uclinux
> > compatible shell, correct?)
> >
> > so i added them to msh, and to hush.  i didn't add them to lash
> > since it's not really scriptable, and this only really makes a
> > difference in that case.
>
> Not just that but I intend to obsolete those shells.

msh cant really be obsoleted until another shell exists that doesnt use fork()
-mike
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