More bbsh design notes.

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Sun Sep 10 17:00:31 PDT 2006


On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 05:40:02PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> The real trick is getting everything configurable, so you can chop it down 
> under 600 bytes if all you want is something to run a few commands in your 
> init script.  Here's what I've got so far:
> 
> Feature list for bbsh (nesting indicates sub-features):
>   Terminal Control
>     History (count)
>       Save on disk (count)
>     Tab completion

All of this should probably be in a shared line-editing module, maybe
even in libbb instead of inline in bbsh. That way other applets could
potentially use it. It doesn't seem at all shell-specific.

Rich





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