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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Mathieu L. wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So far the wmii dev used to include the rci code in the wmii source so
> one had just to build wmii to get it working but from now on he's gonna
> separate it as another package and it's a mandatory dep for wmii.
> So my question is:
> -Do we already have a rci spell? (I checked and I don't think so)
> -If not, in which section am I supposed to submit the soon to be spell?
>
> Here is the description of rci btw:
>
> rci - rc shell improved - is based on a unix rc version dated back to
> 1992, and only some portions of the maintained version, known as
> rc-1.7.x, have been applied (mostly bugfixes and cleanups).
>
> The rc 1.4 from 1992 has been choosed as base because it doesn't used
> autohell. I removed all crap, like readline dependencies etc, because
> we don't need such stuff.
> I implemented an export mechanism. By default rc exports all variables
> and functions to subprocesses, this is NOT the case for rci. Instead
> rci only exports variables through subprocesses who have been valid
> in the parent process OR who are exported explicitely through the new
> builtin command 'export [Var] [Function] ...'. This command has been
> added, because the unix version does not support the plan9ish rfork
> way.
> rci also includes a builtin sleep command called 'nap', because we use
> sleep very often and I noticed that GNU coreutils sleep consumes 3 times
> as much memory as rci.
>
> I also thought about porting the original rc from plan9 shipped
> in the plan9ports codebase. Although the original code base of rc is
> somewhat smaller without dependencies, it would explode with all
> necessary dependencies. Thus we choosed the unix reimplementation.

Shounds like it might want to go in shell-term-fm.

- -sandalle

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