On Tue, 5 May 2020 08:56:59 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >FWIW, I would love to use bash exclusively on z/OS, but without >_BPX_SHAREAS support: > >- there are things that you just can't do, like use DDs > Where does a shell employ DDs?
>- the overhead for forking new address spaces is significant for many >tasks. > That seems to be an argument for retaining _BPX_SHAREAS support. And for a shell's using spawn() where possible rather than fork(). -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
