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vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:

[ fine suggestions for gsh deleted ]

  We'll be adding all the things you mentioned to the next version of
gsh.

>Say you have a background process and you want to change a paramater or
>something. 
[..]

>That's named pipes as UNIX implements them, isn't it?
>Well, most of that stuff is a wish list anyway.

  The socket interface is probably equivalent in functionality; I've
considered named pipes, but sockets are much more flexible and
named pipes aren't used anymore, really.

>RE: gsh not connected to the kern.

>Who intercepts the ORCA Execute call (system() in C). I thought kern took care
>of all intercepting of things, but that command sting has to make it to gsh
>somehow for parsing and execution... What is there are several shells running?
>Who gets the Execute call? 

  The kernel (which handles all other ORCA shell calls) also accepts
the Execute call; but there is a kernel call that allows shells to 
install Execute handlers.  So, when gsh starts up it makes this call
(SetExecuteVector) so it can handle Execute calls.

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