On 1/6/07, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 03:58:09AM +0100, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > That is indeed a problem. I remember reading an interview with one of > > the Unix creators (maybe it was Richie?) about what dissapointed him > > in modern Unix/Linux versions, and he mentioned that he thought it was > > silly that there where still so many arbitrary system limits > > hurd fixes all that. > that's a place for innovation. unix/linux will probably remain stuck > because so many people fear change.
That is cool. On the other hand, it feels like Linux _is_ moving forward at high pace in other places, e.g. Fuse and kernel virtualization support are nice steps towards getting most of the benefits of a microkernel. And there are lots of other goodies like Kernel preemption, really fast threading, and maybe in a zany cool future we might even get working hibernation support. But all the new things do seem to make at least my system slightly less stable than it was 4 years ago, so maybe Linux shouldn't move along any faster than it already is. The question then remains, are the features that are going into the Linux kernels the ones that _should_ be going in or are we mostly getting bloat and badly designed workarounds? I know far too little about the kernel architecture to have an opinion on that, though I would much rather see the removal of silly limits on execve than yet another scheduler. > > > It may make sense to allow you to specify a history name for the read > > builtin. That way you can write shellscripts which prompy the user and > > provide a history unique to that script. > > yes, please. that sounds very useful. Done. Patch is in the Darcs tree. It was only a question of enabling and documenting the functionality, the code in question was written with this functionality in mind. read -m progname varname Will use the progname_history file to load/save history contents. > > greetings, martin. > -- > cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix > offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world > -- > pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org > unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at > administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org > Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ > -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
