Re: Makeing the subshell reliable

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

> > > the second variant would be embedding the real shell prompt into the
> > > panels. this could work by presenting the shell a really tiny pty.
> > > to
> >
> > Could you elaborate, please ? Do you mean implementing another view
> > for the panels that will display the output of the subshell and will
> > pass the user input to the subshell ? In short the same behaviour that
> > is currently invoked by pressing Ctrl+O ?
> yup.
>
> > Shall we keep the prompt in this case ?
> i think it would be logical.

But then we shall face the same problems. I mean it is not different
from what we do now. The only difference is that the output will go
to the panel directly and no Ctrl+O would be necessary.

> > The current code would work well if: [...]
> then it would be trivial. the fun would be gone then. :)))

Darn! :)

> > Reading /proc (if mounted) seems appropriate since it is available on
> > most of the popular platforms.
> in principle yes, but every system has it's own /proc format, which some
> of are binary.

It's more like reading a symlink. At least the current directory is
implemented like symlink on the systems I've seen.