Re: Difficulties with the sh manual page

2017-05-25 Thread Alexander Hall
On May 25, 2017 9:47:08 AM GMT+02:00, Theo Buehler wrote: >On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 09:03:43AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: >> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:27:06PM -0400, Choose a display name >wrote: >> >> > I don't quite understand the description of the PPID in the sh >manual. >> > >> > >PPID T

Re: Difficulties with the sh manual page

2017-05-25 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 09:47:08AM +0200, Theo Buehler wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 09:03:43AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:27:06PM -0400, Choose a display name wrote: > > > > > I don't quite understand the description of the PPID in the sh manual. > > > > > > >

Re: Difficulties with the sh manual page

2017-05-25 Thread Choose a display name
>>yes, should be the same, see the cd coomand, >I meant, see the description of the cd command in the opengroup docs. Yes, ksh's and sh's cd seems to work the exact same way, despite man page of the latter not saying what it does when CDPATH is null. And about PPID Theo understood me right. Than

Re: Difficulties with the sh manual page

2017-05-25 Thread Theo Buehler
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 09:03:43AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:27:06PM -0400, Choose a display name wrote: > > > I don't quite understand the description of the PPID in the sh manual. > > > > >PPID The shell's parent process ID. Subshells have the same > > > PPID as t

Re: Difficulties with the sh manual page

2017-05-25 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 09:03:43AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:27:06PM -0400, Choose a display name wrote: > > > I don't quite understand the description of the PPID in the sh manual. > > > > >PPID The shell's parent process ID. Subshells have the same > > > PPID as

Re: Difficulties with the sh manual page

2017-05-25 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:27:06PM -0400, Choose a display name wrote: > I don't quite understand the description of the PPID in the sh manual. > > >PPID The shell's parent process ID. Subshells have the same > > PPID as the parent of the current shell. > > PPID is the shell's parent's pid, okay

Difficulties with the sh manual page

2017-05-24 Thread Choose a display name
I don't quite understand the description of the PPID in the sh manual. >PPID The shell's parent process ID. Subshells have the same > PPID as the parent of the current shell. PPID is the shell's parent's pid, okay (by the way, shouldn't the second "'s" be added?). But, according to the next sente