On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:24:57AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore - sun microsystems wrote: > Future development > ------------------ > The shell project team will file separate ARC case to add the same > shell built ins to bash4, reusing the same code as ksh93 > (libcmd.so.1). > The shell project will provide an API within libcmd.so.1 for other > shells (e.g. bash4) and applications to call the built ins directly. > This API will be available as contracted API until sufficient > experience has been collected and then opened as Committed > interface.
How would this work? Do bash4 and ksh93 have similar internal APIs for accessing and manipulating variables? Nico --
